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Polymerase Chain Reaction: Basic Protocol Plus Troubleshooting and Optimization Strategies
Published on: May 22, 2012
Improvement of inverse polymerase chain reaction by optimal dilution and acidic polypeptides
Yu-Yuan Peter Wo1, Fen-Lan Chaung, Chi-Ling Wang
1Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry and Graduate Institute of Biotechnology, National Chiayi University, Chiayi 600, Taiwan.
Analytical Biochemistry
|March 17, 2007
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