Optimal probe length varies for targets with high sequence variation: Implications for probe library design for resequencing highly variable genes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Haslam, Niall J ^a   Whiteford, Nava E ^a   Weber, Gerald ^a,b   Prügel Bennett, Adam ^a   Essex, Jonathan W ^a   Neylon, Cameron ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF OURO PRETO   (Brazil)

^c RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA LIBRARY; DNA PROBE; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG TARGETING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME SIZE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; GENETICS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MOLECULAR PROBE; ORTHOMYXOVIRUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

HEPACIVIRUS; HIV; MOLECULAR PROBES; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 49449092312     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002500     Document Type: Article

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