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Do-it-yourself RNAi made easy?

Nature Methods volume 4, pages 308–309 (2007)Cite this article

Enzymatically generated small interfering RNAs are a welcome addition in the tool box of scientists performing large-scale RNAi screens.

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Figure 1: Creation of an esiRNA library for genome-wide RNAi screens.

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