Turbo screening

[Ludwig Lab-UCSC]

>Hi bionetters,
>can anyone tell me what is "turbo screening"
>Thanx in advance
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I use a microwave oven (really) and paper filters (Whatman 540 or 541
are stiff enough) for all my colony hybridizations.  It's very quick 
and gives good signal-to-noise.

Forster et al. Trends in Genetics 6:141 (1990) call this "Turbo-
screening."

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