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.
...because of these different codon usage biases. But if a gene’s sequence was “optimized” so that it more closely...In designing and optimizing their algorithm, they found that GC content and rare codon percentage were... there are not rare codons and many genes where there are instances of rare codons, sometimes intentionally...synthetic or natural? The answer to this lies in the codon usage biases of different organisms. Different species... species have different preferences for the codons they use; even if two species encode the same protein...looked at intrinsic properties (GC content or rare codon percentage) and comparative properties (percent ...work within a narrow range for GC content. Rare codons also are not good predictors because they are just...