UniPrime: A workflow-based platform for improved universal primer design

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Bekaert, Michaël ^a   Teeling, Emma C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIZYME; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN 6; PRIMER DNA; PROTEIN AOF2; PROTEIN EFEMP1; PROTEIN OAZ1; SCLEROPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENBANK; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION STORAGE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; EVALUATION; GENETICS; MAMMAL; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; PHYLOGENY;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA PRIMERS; HUMANS; MAMMALS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 45549107624     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn191     Document Type: Article

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