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  • noun biology The totality of open reading frames in a genome

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ORF +‎ -ome

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  • This is an in-vitro cloning method that is used for example by Marc Vidal's lab in the orfeome project of C. elegans.

    Public Rambling Pedro Beltrao 2005

  • This is an in-vitro cloning method that is used for example by Marc Vidal's lab in the orfeome project of C. elegans.

    Archive 2005-10-01 Pedro Beltrao 2005

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