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A penny for your method: Plate sealers

Posted on 8 Apr, 2011 by Brant Faircloth

You may call them plate sealers, we call them “sticky-tops” (as opposed to the rubber plate sealers we use for PCR). Whatever you call them, they seal up 96- and 384-well plates so you can store them in the fridge … Continue reading →

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Get your protein

Posted on 3 Apr, 2011 by Brant Faircloth

This weekend, I was doing a little work on one of our projects where we are using various cpDNA genes. I really needed to get a number of protein sequences from Genbank for the products of chloroplast genes. If I … Continue reading →

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Get you some homologs*

Posted on 14 Jan, 2011 by Brant Faircloth

Let’s assume the following scenario: you have a gene in which you are interested. You would like to find the putative location of this gene in another organism using sequence similarity searches. The question is, how do you do that? The answers are many. Here is one. Continue reading →

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