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Ray Wu, fifth business or father of DNA sequencing?

  • Yu Xue , 1 ,
  • Yongbo Wang 1 ,
  • Hui Shen 2
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  • 1. Department of Bioinformatics & Systems Biology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
  • 2. Center for Epigenetics, Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, USA

Published date: 18 Jul 2016

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Yu Xue , Yongbo Wang , Hui Shen . Ray Wu, fifth business or father of DNA sequencing?[J]. Protein & Cell, 2016 , 7(7) : 467 -470 . DOI: 10.1007/s13238-016-0271-8

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