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Electron tunnelling can be used to identify single bases in a short DNA oligomer.

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Figure 1: Interrogation of individual DNA bases by electron tunnelling.

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  1. Massimiliano Di Ventra is in the Physics Department, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA. diventra@physics.ucsd.edu,

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Di Ventra, M. Sequencing at the end of the tunnel. Nature Nanotech 5, 828–829 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2010.238

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