RapGene: A fast and accurate strategy for synthetic gene assembly in Escherichia coli

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Zampini, Massimiliano ^a   Stevens, Pauline Rees ^a   Pachebat, Justin A ^a   Kingston Smith, Alison ^a   Mur, Luis A J ^a   Hayes, Finbarr ^b  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN, AEQUOREA VICTORIA; SPECTINOMYCIN; SYNTHETIC DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 1;

ANIMAL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; HYDROZOA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCEDURES; SYNTHESIS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DNA; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GATA1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, SYNTHETIC; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HYDROZOA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECTINOMYCIN; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84931287741     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep11302     Document Type: Article

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