SAPTA: A new design tool for improving TALE nuclease activity

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Lin, Yanni ^a   Fine, Eli J ^a   Zheng, Zhilan ^a   Antico, Christopher J ^a   Voit, Richard A ^b   Porteus, Matthew H ^b   Cradick, Thomas J ^a   Bao, Gang ^a  

^a Wallace H Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BASE SEQUENCE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84898942101     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt1363     Document Type: Article

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