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"ref": "2005, (US) National Research Council, Sensor Systems for Biological Agent Attacks, page 117",
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"ref": "2010, Dabid Loakes, “Nucleotides an Nucleic Acids; Oligo- and Polynucleotides”, in D. W. Allen, J. C. Tebby, John C. Tebby, David Loakes, editors, Organophosphorus Chemistry, page 144",
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"text": "2015, Caroli J et al, \"APTANI: a computational tool to select aptamers through sequence-structure motif analysis of HT-SELEX data\", Bioinformatics, 32 (2): 161-164, \"3 Results\".\nTo test APTANI performances and validate its findings, we analyzed a sequence library corresponding to an HT-SELEX experiment designed to isolate aptamers specific for murine IL4Ra (Roth et al., 2012)."
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