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It's How-To Day at GTO

Jan 31, 2007

Over at the Digital Bio blog, auteur Sandra Porter has been treating readers to a three-part series on how to sequence genomes. The third part went up this week, and seems to be the meatiest of the batch. If you need to brush up on your reads and chromats, check it out here.

 

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