Microfabricated electrophoresis systems for DNA sequencing and genotyping applications: Current technology and future directions

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 362, Issue 1818, 2004, Pages 1105-1129

  Ugaz, Victor M ^a   Elms, René D ^a   Lo, Roger C ^a   Shaikh, Faisal A ^a   Burns, Mark A ^b  

^a Texas A M University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA sequencing; Gel electrophoresis; Genotyping; Microfabrication; Miniaturization

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442463028     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2003.1365     Document Type: Article

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