Gene Designer: a synthetic biology tool for constructing artificial DNA segments.

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Published in BMC Bioinformatics on June 06, 2006

Authors

Alan Villalobos1, Jon E Ness, Claes Gustafsson, Jeremy Minshull, Sridhar Govindarajan

Author Affiliations

1: DNA 2.0, Inc., 1430 O'Brien Drive Suite E, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. avillalobos@dna20.com

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