Here, there, and everywhere: From PCRs to next-generation sequencing technologies and sequence databases, DNA contaminants creep in from the most unlikely places

EMBO Reports

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 898-901

  Gruber, Karl ^a  

^a NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOCLAVE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; DNA CONTAMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL CONTAMINATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; LABORATORY; MICROBIAL GENOME; MYCOPLASMA; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE DATABASE; DEVICES; GENETIC DATABASE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA CONTAMINATION; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84938749252     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15252/embr.201540822     Document Type: Article

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