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You too can play with an edge

Nature Methods volume 6, pages 797–798 (2009)Cite this article

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Strategies for the systematic isolation of alleles that selectively disrupt only one or a few interactions of the encoded protein will aid in the dissection of gene function.

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Costanzo, M., Baryshnikova, A., Nislow, C. et al. You too can play with an edge. Nat Methods 6, 797–798 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth1109-797

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