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Purifying Plasmid DNA from Bacterial Colonies Using the Qiagen Miniprep Kit
Published on: July 29, 2007
Isolation of knotted DNA from coliphage P4
M Isaksen1, B Julien, R Calendar
1Genosys Biotechnologies, Inc., Babraham Institute East Laboratories, Cambs, UK.
Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|July 8, 2003
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