Cloning nomenclature

[John R. McQuiston]

We had one a few years back that I liked, pBFP.  It was a very large plasmid.

John




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<Pine.GSO.4.05.9906171048270.23342-100000 at genius.embnet.dkfz-heidelberg.de>, 
un691cs at genius.embnet.dkfz-heidelberg.de says...
>
>On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Frank O. Fackelmayer wrote:
>
>> Hi Bill,
>> There is no convention for naming clones. Everyone chooses a name (s)he 
likes. The
>> only thing that is usually accepted is a "p" as the first letter of a 
plasmid
>> name.
>
>For plasmids name, try to circumvent vip (very important
>plasmid/phage/product/...), pis, pus or pnis. Although funny, there must
>be thousands around. My favorite still is the plasmid series GKW... God
>Knows What.
>
>clemens
>
>
>
>------------------ Clemens Suter-Crazzolara, PhD  --------------------
>                 German Cancer Research Center DKFZ       
>                 Dept. Molecular Biophysics (H0200)           
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