Accelerated genome engineering through multiplexing

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Systems Biology and Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 5-21

  Bao, Zehua ^a   Cobb, Ryan E ^b   Zhao, Huimin ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRISPR ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; NUCLEASE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ANIMAL GENETICS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BACTERIAL GENOME; BOMBYX MORI; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MULTIPLEXED GENOME ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENOME; REVIEW; RICE; SPECIES COMPARISON; STREPTOMYCES ALBUS; STREPTOMYCES LIVIDANS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS TROPICALIS; ZEBRA FISH; GENE LOCUS; PROCEDURES; TRENDS;

GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS;

EID: 84955216261     PISSN: 19395094     EISSN: 1939005X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wsbm.1319     Document Type: Review

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