Evaluating putative chimeric sequences from PCR-amplified products

Bioinformatics

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 333-337

  Gonzalez, Juan M ^a   Zimmermann, Johannes ^a   Saiz Jimenez, Cesareo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; GENE PRODUCT; NUCLEOTIDE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHIMERA; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

EID: 13844266107     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bti008     Document Type: Article

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