Miniaturization in functional genomics and proteomics

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 465-476

  Sauer, Sascha ^a   Lange, Bodo M H ^a   Gobom, Johan ^a   Nyarsik, Lajos ^a   Seitz, Harald ^a   Lehrach, Hans ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; PROTEIN; RNA;

BIOMOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; CHROMATOGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; COMPUTER; COST CONTROL; DEVICE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA PURIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; FLOW RATE; FLUORESCENCE; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; FUNCTIONAL PROTEOMICS; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; LASER CAPTURE MICRODISSECTION; MACROMOLECULE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROFLUIDICS; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MINIATURIZATION; PROTEOMICS;

EID: 19544371038     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1618     Document Type: Review

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