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                <surname>Justicia-Leon</surname>
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                <surname>Löffler</surname>
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                <surname>Hugenholtz</surname>
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            <article-title>The Genomes On Line Database (GOLD) in 2009: status of genomic and metagenomic projects and their associated metadata</article-title>
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            <source id="1178">Nucleic Acids Research</source>
            <abbrev>Nucleic Acids Res.</abbrev>
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