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From: dd@beta.lanl.gov (Dan Davison)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: dna kits
Summary: big bucks
Keywords: dna
Message-ID: <23047@beta.lanl.gov>
Date: 23 Dec 88 02:12:48 GMT
References: <109@hugin.dmt.oz>
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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In article <109@hugin.dmt.oz>, dhj@hugin.dmt.oz (Dennis Jarvis) writes:
> I would like to build a sizeable model of a dna molecule.
> Can anyone point me in the direction of commercial suppliers of such kits? 

Unless you are independently wealthy, I would advise going rather
modestly here. The standard CPK (space filling) atom models are roughly
US$1.00 per atom.  Even a couple basepairs can really get up there in
cost.  At one point I was going to build a small section of the 16s rRNA
from _E. coli_; the section, about 100 bases, was going to cost over
US$10,000!

If no one on the net can come up with the vendors, send me e-mail and I
will go digging through my files.

(Note: LANL is going to be off the air intermittently 12/23-1/3; best to
send mail *after* that date).

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