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. 2005 Apr;6(3):132–137. doi: 10.1002/cfg.466

Design and Calibration of Microarrays as Universal Transcriptomic Environmental Biosensors

J S Almeida 1,✉, D J McKillen 2, Y A Chen 1, P S Gross 2,3, R W Chapman 3,4, G Warr 2,3
PMCID: PMC2447521  PMID: 18629225

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