DNA repair: Bioinformatics helps reverse methylation damage

Current Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 24, 2002, Pages

  Jiricny, Josef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0037164719     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(02)01350-7     Document Type: Review

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