Indirect mass spectrometric methods for characterizing and sequencing oligonucleotides

Mass Spectrometry Reviews

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 297-336

  Limbach, Patrick A ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0000390381     PISSN: 02777037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2787(1996)15:5<297::AID-MAS2>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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