Strategies for the systematic sequencing of complex genomes

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 573-583

  Green, Eric D ^a  

^a NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

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ANIMAL; ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA SEQUENCE; GENOME; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL; GENOME; HUMANS; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0035432364     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35084503     Document Type: Review

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