Key methods for synthetic biology: Genome engineering and DNA assembly

Synthetic Biology

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 101-141

  Weninger, Astrid ^a   Killinger, Manuela ^b   Vogl, Thomas ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b AUSTRIAN CENTRE OF INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-22708-5_3     Document Type: Chapter

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