Genome-scale RNAi screens for high-throughput phenotyping in bloodstream-form African trypanosomes

Nature Protocols

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 106-133

  Glover, Lucy ^a   Alsford, Sam ^b   Baker, Nicola ^a   Turner, Daniel J ^c   Sanchez Flores, Alejandro ^d   Hutchinson, Sebastian ^a   Hertz Fowler, Christiane ^e   Berriman, Matthew ^f   Horn, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^f WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMID DNA;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; VALIDATION PROCESS; AFRICA; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; GENOME; PROCEDURES; TRYPANOSOMA;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA;

AFRICA; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC TESTING; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; PHENOTYPE; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 84925944824     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2015.005     Document Type: Article

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