Concepts and software for a rational design of polynucleotide probes

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 69-78

  Moraru, Cristina ^a   Moraru, Gabriel ^b   Fuchs, Bernhard M ^a   Amann, Rudolf ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b HeracleSoftware   (Germany)

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EID: 78249281491     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2010.00189.x     Document Type: Article

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