SNPbox: A modular software package for large-scale primer design

Bioinformatics

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 385-387

  Weckx, Stefan ^a   De Rijk, Peter ^a   Van Broeckhoven, Christine ^a   Del Favero, Jurgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA MICROARRAY; EXON; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 13844266054     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bti006     Document Type: Article

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