Surfing on a new wave of Single-molecule fluorescence methods

Physical Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Hohlbein, Johannes ^a   Gryte, Kristofer ^a   Heilemann, Mike ^b   Kapanidis, Achillefs N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; SURFACE PROPERTY;

FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 78049249328     PISSN: 14783967     EISSN: 14783975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/7/3/031001     Document Type: Review

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