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Contaminating insert degradation by preincubation colony PCR: A method for avoiding false positives in transformant screening
- V AGRAWAL, N ROY,
- Original article citation: Analytical Biochemistry 375," 159 - 161, (2008).
- Categories: Biotechnology and Cell & Molecular Biology
- Recommended by: sumit deswal on 03/26/2008 10:45AM GMT
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As the title suggests, the paper presents a fast and cost effective method for degrading contaminating insert for transformant screening. Surely, a useful advancement for any molecular biology lab.
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The paper describes quite a useful technique. Can save a lot of time and hassle if adopted.
A very innovative development in the colony PCR based screening methodology. People using colony PCRs routinely will definitely appreciate.