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Quantifying gene expression: the importance of being subtle

Gustavo Monteiro Silva¹, Christine Vogel¹

¹Department of Biology, Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University, New York, NY, USA.

Molecular Systems Biology

|December 13, 2016

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