Synthetic DNA synthesis and assembly: Putting the synthetic in synthetic biology

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Hughes, Randall A ^a   Ellington, Andrew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

CHEMISTRY; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA REPLICATION; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

DNA; DNA REPLICATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 85009090143     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a023812     Document Type: Article

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