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The authors declare the following competing financial
interest(s): Flipper-TR is commercially available from
bio.ch/technologies/nccr-store/). The NCCR receives 15% of
the revenues.
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We thank the NMR, MS, and bioimaging platforms for services
and the University of Geneva, the Swiss National Centre of
Competence in Research (NCCR) Chemical Biology, the
NCCR Molecular Systems Engineering and the Swiss NSF for
financial support.
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