Gene Designer: A synthetic biology tool for constructuring artificial DNA segments

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Villalobos, Alan ^a   Ness, Jon E ^a   Gustafsson, Claes ^a   Minshull, Jeremy ^a   Govindarajan, Sridhar ^a  

^a DNA20 Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING TEMPERATURES; CODON OPTIMIZATION; GRAPHIC INTERFACES; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN EXPRESSIONS; SEQUENCING PRIMERS; STAND-ALONE SOFTWARE;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGY; DESIGN; DNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; OPTIMIZATION; PROTEINS; TOOLS;

GENES;

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; DNA; SYNTHETIC DNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CODON; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA SYNTHESIS; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; OPEN READING FRAME; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROMOTER REGION; RESTRICTION SITE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DRUG DESIGN; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROCEDURES; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; DNA; DRUG DESIGN; GENES, SYNTHETIC; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33746788103     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-7-285     Document Type: Article

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