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Robotics in the Human Genome Project

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Knobeloch, D., Hildebrand, C., Moyzis, R. et al. Robotics in the Human Genome Project. Nat Biotechnol 5, 1284–1287 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt1287-1284

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