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From the era before Sanger sequencing was invented.


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answered First genomic survey of human skin fungal diversity
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answered How does the immune system distinguish own and foreign antibodies?
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revised How did the activities of protocells become inheritable?
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comment Reverse complement of reconstruction model for assembling reads
Yes, if you have a read (which will be by convention 5'>3') then you can search for it directly on the top strand of the target (also 5'>3'). If you need to look for it on the other strand of the target you can't simply search on the complementary because this is 3'>5', so you derive the reverse complement. It's just the equivalent of turning the dsDNA sequence (on the page) through 180 degrees.
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comment Reverse complement of reconstruction model for assembling reads
Isn't this just a case of keeping everything straight with respect to 5'>3' direction? If a read matched "TGACAGG" this would not correspond to either strand of your example, because writing it like that implies that it is 5'-TGACAGG-3' unless it is made explicitly clear that it is the bottom strand of a duplex.
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comment Immunity during pregnancy
In fact antibodies do cross the placental barrier: there is active transplacental transport of maternal IgG into the foetal circulation.
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comment Transplantation of stem cells
Although most of these stem cells are in the bone marrow, there are also some in the blood and these are collected in order to perform an autologous transplant.
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revised Can proteins move outside cells?
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revised Diffusion across cell membranes
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answered Diffusion across cell membranes
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answered What medical and commercial proteins are made using genetically modified animals?
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comment Writing methods section on PCR amplication in a paper
@Des-microbiology this site looks like a reasonable place to start.
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comment Wheat anthracnose outbreaks caused by Colletotrichum cereale in the USA
The review you mention in the quotation (...which is from?...) is available here and seems to be a good source of at least some relevant references.
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comment Wheat anthracnose outbreaks caused by Colletotrichum cereale in the USA
It's not clear which case you mean - 1940s or golf courses?