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Gene factories made of droplets

How to make large synthetic gene libraries out of some beads, an oligo array and an emulsion.

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Nawy, T. Gene factories made of droplets. Nat Methods 15, 160–161 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.4623

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