Natural or synthetic? How Addgene’s dataset reveals trends in biological innovation
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Blog Post
...codon usage biases of different organisms. Different species have different preferences for the codons they...scientists from MIT tapped into this data to learn about trends in synthetic biology and DNA synthesis. They published...the gene may not express well because of these different codon usage biases. But if a gene’s sequence was...could be determined through comparisons with a reference sequence database. Through a series of simulations...Kunjapur says. Percent sequence identity was a different story - the team found that the percent sequence...sequences in Addgene’s database. They showed a growing trend of sourcing genes from distantly related organisms...and synthetic biology is expanding rapidly.
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1. Kunjapur, Aditya M., Philipp Pfingstag, and...