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Concise but complete, this mini-encyclopedia contains over 3,000 entries covering all important concepts, compounds, techniques and acronyms for quick and easy reference.Guiding readers through the ever-increasing jungle of nucleic acid science and technology, the book distills the key information out of the large body of primary literature and presents it in a single volume.A first-stop resource for everyone, from students to established researchers, as both a desktop and library reference.
List of contents
Covers the following areas of nucleic acid science:nucleoside chemistrysynthetic nucelotidesnucleic acid structuresequence analysisoligonucleotide synthesisnucleic acid conjugatesnucleic acid binding proteinsribozymesaptamersribonucleoproteinsDNA methylationRNA interferencetherapeutic use of nucleic acids
About the author
Sabine Müller studied Chemistry at the Humboldt University in Berlin (Germany), completing her PhD in 1994. Thereafter, she spent one and a half years as a postdoc with Michael J. Gait at the MRC in Cambridge (UK) and then took up a group leader position at Humboldt University. In 2003, she finished her Habilitation and moved to the University of Bochum where she was a Professor of Bioorganic Chemistry until 2006. Since 2006 she has been working at Greifswald University, where she holds the chair of Bioorganic Chemistry.
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"The descriptions are conscious and informative. Researchers from industry and academia will benefit from this book." ( ChemBioChem , December 2008)
