Natural or synthetic? How Addgene’s dataset reveals trends in biological innovation
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Blog Post
...beginning to see Addgene as a large data set. Addgene has over 65,000 plasmids in the repository, each verified...predictors because they are just that: rare. “Nature has many genes where there are not rare codons and many...at the time, got involved. Along with Philipp Pfingstag, a visiting graduate student from TU München at...intrinsic properties (GC content or rare codon percentage) and comparative properties (percent sequence...algorithm, they found that GC content and rare codon percentage were not good predictors. There is not much variation...
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1. Kunjapur, Aditya M., Philipp Pfingstag, and Neil C. Thompson. "Gene synthesis allows ...