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Bell, S.M., L.D. Burgoon and R.L. Last. 2012. MIPHENO: Data normalization for high throughput metabolite analysis. BMC Bioinformatics. Published 13 January; doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-13-10

Gu, L., A.D. Jones and R.L. Last. 2012. Rapid LC−MS/MS Profiling of protein amino acids and metabolically related compounds for large-scale assessment of metabolic phenotypes. Amino Acid Analysis Handbook in Methods in Molecular Biology. M.A. Alterman and P. Hunziker, eds. Humana Press, NY. 828:1-11. doi: 10.1007/978-1-61779-445-2_1

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Lu, Y., D.A. Hall, R.L. Last. 2011. A small zinc finger thylakoid protein plays a role in maintenance of photosystem II in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell 23: 1861-1875. doi: 10.1105/tpc.111.085456

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