Sequencing of unknown product

Panagiotis Apostolou @Panagiotis_Apostolou

03 March 2013 0 4K Report

I have an unknown DNA product (about 500bp) which I want to sequence. I cannot insert it into a vector, because I have no vector. The company I do sequence for cannot do it only for one sample. Is there any other solution?

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