Complex sentence: The method is named after its inventor, the British biologist Edwin Southern.Other blotting methods (i.e., western blot, northern blot, southwestern blot) that employ similar principles, but using RNA or protein, have later been named in reference to Southern's name.
Split into simpler sentences: The method is named after its inventor, the British biologist Edwin Southern. PMID 1195397 Other blotting methods (i.e., western blot, northern blot, southwestern blot) that employ similar principles, but using RNA or protein, have later been named in reference to Southern's name.