Bricks and blueprints: Methods and standards for DNA assembly

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 568-576

  Casini, Arturo ^a   Storch, Marko ^a   Baldwin, Geoffrey S ^a   Ellis, Tom ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; DNA; TYPE II SITE SPECIFIC DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; ENDONUCLEASE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; DNA ASSEMBLY; DNA SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC PROCEDURES; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION SITE; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; PROCEDURES; STANDARD; STANDARDS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENDONUCLEASES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84940436063     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm4014     Document Type: Review

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