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Consensus transcripts were given precedence over individual ESTs because they provide greatly improved specificity, splicing evidence and transcript integrity.
It is possible to emphasize this topic without stating that it should take precedence over other issues or have a certain amount of resources devoted to it.
If he chooses to stay in the relationship and the next gathering is a nightmare, simply tell him the woman makes for too much discomfort and, although you will miss his presence, the greater good of the group takes precedence and not to plan on further get-togethers.
When naming information was present in multiple records, data were derived from records according to the following precedence: RefSeq NM, RefSeq NP, other non-XP protein, RefSeq XP, non-EST transcripts, and finally dbEST records.
There is precedence for a distributive MI segregation system in several organisms.