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Human Genome News, September-December 1995; 7(3-4):12
Information, protocols, and selected references on constructing and using BAC clones and libraries are accessible via the Home Page (http://www.tree.caltech.edu) of the Genome Research Laboratory at California Institute of Technology. Melvin Simon's group at Caltech developed BACs to clone and stably maintain large DNA fragments [Shizuya et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 89, 8794-97 (1992) and Kim et al., Nucleic Acids Res. 23(10), 1838-39 (1995)]. Cytogenetic BAC maps are also available via WWW at http://www.csmc.edu/csri/korenberg/.
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