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Estimating diversity, the easy way

Nature Methods volume 3, pages 879–880 (2006)Cite this article

A new twist to a classic technique offers a new way to accurately measure population diversity at the nucleic acid level.

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Figure 1: TCR repertoire diversity of a T-cell population analyzed by AmpliCot.

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