Natural and man-made V-gene repertoires for antibody discovery.

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Published in Front Immunol on November 15, 2012

Authors

William J J Finlay1, Juan C Almagro

Author Affiliations

1: Global Biotherapeutics Technologies, Pfizer Dublin, Ireland.

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