Natural or synthetic? How Addgene’s dataset reveals trends in biological innovation
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Blog Post
Published
Nov. 8, 2018, 3:47 p.m.
..., the researchers looked at intrinsic properties (GC content or rare codon percentage) and comparative... and optimizing their algorithm, they found that GC content and rare codon percentage were not good predictors... predictors. There is not much variation in GC content between many organisms and DNA synthesis companies...companies often work within a narrow range for GC content. Rare codons also are not good predictors because...