blue-white screen

noun

Definitions

  1. A screening technique for the rapid detection of recombinant bacteria in vector-based…

    A screening technique for the rapid detection of recombinant bacteria in vector-based molecular cloning experiments. DNA of interest is ligated into a vector, which is then inserted into a host cell; these are grown in the presence of X-gal. Cells transformed with vectors containing recombinant DNA will produce white colonies; cells transformed with non-recombinant plasmids (i.e. only the vector) grow into blue colonies.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for blue-white screen. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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