Natural or synthetic? How Addgene’s dataset reveals trends in biological innovation
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...scientists have been coming to the Addgene website in search of plasmids. Now, scientists are beginning to see...classification
This inquiry started when Neil Thompson, a research scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial... MIT labs in the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Consortium. That is how Aditya Kunjapur, a MIT... gene sequences as natural or synthetic, the researchers looked at intrinsic properties (GC content or...85% correlates with synthetic sequences.
The researchers then used their classifier to identify synthetic...lab-of-origin of engineered DNA
This isn’t the only time researchers have used Addgene as a large data set. Alec A...Addgene.org
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