Gemi: PCR primers prediction from multiple alignments

Comparative and Functional Genomics

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Sobhy, Haitham ^a   Colson, Philippe ^a,b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE MARSEILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; GEMI; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR PROBE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84872164126     PISSN: 15316912     EISSN: 15326268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2012/783138     Document Type: Article

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