From benchtop to desktop: Important considerations when designing amplicon sequencing workflows

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Murray, Dáithí C ^a   Coghlan, Megan L ^a   Bunce, Michael ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLICON; ANCHOVY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CALYPTORHYNCHUS LATHAMI; CALYPTORHYNCHUS LATIROSTRIS; COCKATOO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SCREENING; DNA SEQUENCE; DROMAIUS NOVAEHOLLANDIAE; EMU; ENGRAULIS AUSTRALIS; EUDYPTULA MINOR; FISH; GALLUS GALLUS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE TARGETING; NONHUMAN; OSTRICH; PENGUIN; SARDINOPS SAGAX; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STRUTHIO CAMELUS; ANIMAL; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCEDURES; WORKFLOW;

ANIMALS; FISHES; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WORKFLOW;

EID: 84930628691     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0124671     Document Type: Article

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