Establishing a method of vector contamination identification in database sequences

Bioinformatics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 106-110

  Seluja, Gustavo A ^a,b   Farmer, Andrew ^a,b   McLeod, Mia ^a,b   Harger, Carol ^a   Schad, Peter A ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GENOME RESOURCES   (United States)

^b Data Products Group   (United States)

^c Alpha Industries Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLONING VECTOR; CONTAMINATION; DATA BASE; DNA SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033011552     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/15.2.106     Document Type: Article

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