Assembly of mesoscopic analogues of nucleic acids [13]

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 122, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 3546-3547

  Weck, Marcus ^a   Choi, Insung S ^a   Jeon, Noo Li ^a   Whitesides, George M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA;

DNA DETERMINATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; LETTER; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034639926     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja994099p     Document Type: Letter

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