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James J La Clair1, Michael D Burkart
1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92037-0358, USA. jlaclair@ucsd.edu
Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
|August 4, 2006
Abstract:
The development of digital molecular devices arises through the appropriate geometric positioning of a molecular assay. A detailed evaluation of the digital media reveals the critical aspects of geometric positioning in terms of developing an analytically-robust system for molecular analysis. This study reveals an explicit digital compact disc based assay for molecular affinity events.
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