RF-Cloning.org: An online tool for the design of restriction-free cloning projects

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue W1, 2012, Pages

  Bond, Stephen R ^a   Naus, Christian C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ERROR; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INTERNET; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGENESIS; ONLINE SYSTEM; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FREE CLONING; RESTRICTION SITE;

ALGORITHMS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; INTERNET; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84864439955     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks396     Document Type: Article

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