Development and initial application of a hybridization-independent, DNA-encoded reaction discovery system compatible

Mary M Rozenman1, Matthew W Kanan, David R Liu

  • 1Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.

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