A fundamental study of the PCR amplification of GC-rich DNA templates.

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Published in Comput Biol Chem on July 25, 2008

Authors

T G Mamedov1, E Pienaar, S E Whitney, J R TerMaat, G Carvill, R Goliath, A Subramanian, H J Viljoen

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588-0643, USA.

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