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| Xiaolong Wang; Shuang-yong Xu; Deming Gou. |
| Alignment of DNA and protein sequences is a basic tool in the study of evolutionary, structural and functional relationship among macromolecules. Present sequence alignment methods are somewhat error-prone, often producing systematic bias. Errors in sequence alignments sometimes lead to subsequent misinterpretation of evolutionary, structural and functional information in genes, proteins and genomes. In traditional sequence alignment algorithms, alignments of DNA and protein sequences are conducted separately. It has been long believed that the phylogenetic signal disappears more rapidly from DNA sequences than from encoded proteins. It is therefore generally preferable to align sequences at the amino acid level. Here we present a new... |
| Tipo: Manuscript |
Palavras-chave: Biotechnology; Genetics & Genomics; Microbiology; Bioinformatics; Evolutionary Biology. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/4898/version/1 |
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| Xiaolong Wang; Deming Gou. |
| Synthetic oligonucleotides are contaminated with highly homologous failure sequences. Oligonucleotide synthesis is difficult to scale up because it requires expensive equipments, hazardous chemicals, and tedious purification process. Here we report a novel thermocyclic reaction, polymerase-endonuclease amplification reaction (PEAR), for the amplification of oligonucleotides. A target oligonucleotide and a tandem repeated antisense probe are subjected to repeated cycles of denaturing, annealing, elongation and cleaving, in which thermostable DNA polymerase elongation and strand slipping generate duplex tandem repeats, and thermostable endonuclease (PspGI) cleavage releases monomeric duplex oligonucleotides. Each round of PEAR achieves >100-fold... |
| Tipo: Manuscript |
Palavras-chave: Biotechnology; Chemistry; Pharmacology. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/3711/version/1 |
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