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Determining if DNA Stained with a Cyanine Dye Can Be Digested with Restriction Enzymes
Published on: February 2, 2018
Reply to: Overestimations in the cyclization efficiency of small, restriction enzyme-digested DNA fragments
Roman Teo Oliynyk1,2, George M Church3,4
1Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. roli573@aucklanduni.ac.nz.
Nature Protocols
|July 30, 2026
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