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  • noun A piece of DNA or RNA formed as the products of natural or artificial amplification events, as in a polymerase chain reaction.

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  • The platform will enable applications such as amplicon sequencing, clone checking, small genome sequencing, ChIP-Seq, and RNA-Seq, all with a single, integrated instrument and at a fraction of current costs and time.

    Illumina Announces MiSeq™ Personal Sequencing System - Yahoo! Finance 2011

  • The ability to support paired-end reads is critical for a broad range of applications including amplicon sequencing, sequencing of complex genome regions, and efficient mapping.

    Illumina Announces MiSeq™ Personal Sequencing System - Yahoo! Finance 2011

  • BioSphere Medical reports fourth-quarter and full-year 2009 results Fluidigm releases amplicon tagging protocol for Illumina GA II next-generation sequencer Doctor, executive who pled guilty to Medicare fraud leave ailing practices behind them Neuroimaging study shows brain activity patterns that correlate to decision making process

    THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010

  • KIT and KDR are both located in the shoulder of the PDGFRA amplicon, which may represent the true target of amplification.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Ethan Cerami et al. 2010

  • BioSphere Medical reports fourth-quarter and full-year 2009 results Fluidigm releases amplicon tagging protocol for Illumina GA II next-generation sequencer Doctor, executive who pled guilty to Medicare fraud leave ailing practices behind them Neuroimaging study shows brain activity patterns that correlate to decision making process

    THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010

  • Fluidigm Corporation today announced the release of its amplicon tagging protocol for the Illumina GA II next-generation sequencer.

    THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010

  • In this study, we have inserted a human glioma-specific peptide sequence (denoted as MG11) into a peptide display HSV-1 amplicon vector replacing the heparan sulfate-binding domain of glycoprotein C (gC).

    Naturejobs - All Jobs I A W Ho 2010

  • CDK4/AGAP2 amplicon, and may play a role in the development of neuronal cells that form ganglia

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Ethan Cerami et al. 2010

  • In this study, we have inserted a human glioma-specific peptide sequence (denoted as MG11) into a peptide display HSV-1 amplicon vector replacing the heparan sulfate-binding domain of glycoprotein C (gC).

    Naturejobs - All Jobs I A W Ho 2010

  • The combination of kDNA primer sets with LINE-1 5′-UTR-derived probes yielded 65% amplicon clones showing chimeric sequences.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Mariana M. Hecht et al. 2010

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