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Precise, High-throughput Analysis of Bacterial Growth
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Author Correction: Robust estimation of bacterial cell count from optical density.
Jacob Beal1, Natalie G Farny2, Traci Haddock-Angelli3
1Raytheon BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA, USA. jakebeal@ieee.org.
Communications Biology
|October 28, 2020
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