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2. Jijun Cheng, Wen Pan and Jun Lu. Dense sgRNA Library Construction Using Molecular Chipper. 2017. Bio-protocols. Vol 7, Iss 12, Jun 20, 2017 DOI:10.21769/BioProtoc.2373.
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5. Christine Roden, Jonathan Gaillard, Shaveta Kanoria, William Rennie, Syndi Barish, Jijun Cheng, Wen Pan, Jun Liu, Chris Cotsapas, Ye Ding and Jun Lu. Novel Determinants of Mammalian Primary microRNA Processing Revealed by Systematic Evaluation of Hairpin-containing Transcripts and Human Genetic Variations. Genome Research. 2017 Jan 13. pii: gr.208900.116. doi: 10.1101/gr.208900.116.
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