BEAMing: Single-molecule PCR on microparticles in water-in-oil emulsions

Nature Methods

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 551-559

  Diehl, Frank ^a   Li, Meng ^a   He, Yiping ^a   Kinzler, Kenneth W ^a   Vogelstein, Bert ^a   Dressman, Devin ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; DNA POLYMERASE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; WATER OIL CREAM;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CENTRIFUGATION; DENATURATION; DNA BINDING; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRONICS; ENZYME ASSAY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; MAGNETISM; MAMMAL CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

DNA; EMULSIONS; MICROSPHERES; OILS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WATER;

EID: 33745379412     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth898     Document Type: Article

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