EnzymeRestriction

Enzyme Restriction with GenEST

A good description of enzyme restriction can be found on Wikipedia. In short: Certain enzymes can cut double stranded DNA in specific locations - cutting it up into restriction fragments. These fragments can be amplified and made visible through technologies like AFLP (Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism). GenEST is a little Ruby program that takes a large number of known sequences and cuts those up in-silico. These cadidate fragments are matched with the known size of fragments as they were rendered through AFLP.

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