A quantitative fitness analysis workflow

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 66, 2012, Pages

  Banks, A P ^a   Lawless, C ^a   Lydall, D A ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analysis; Array; Culture; Fitness; Growth rate; High throughput; Issue 66; Library; Medicine; Microbial; Physiology; Quantitative; Robotic; Solid agar; Yeast

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868282990     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/4018     Document Type: Article

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