Natural or synthetic? How Addgene’s dataset reveals trends in biological innovation
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Nov. 8, 2018, 3:47 p.m.
...For the last 14 years, scientists have been coming to the Addgene website in search of plasmids. Now, scientists...synthetic biology page
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...Addgene as a large data set. Addgene has over 65,000 plasmids in the repository, each verified by sequencing...at its sequence.
MIT collaboration for gene classification
This inquiry started when Neil Thompson, a ...is synthetic or natural with 97.7% accuracy.
Classifying genes as natural or synthetic
But how can you...organism, it may express protein more efficiently.
To classify gene sequences as natural or synthetic, the researchers...simulations and machine learning, they created a classifier that predicts whether a gene was natural or synthetic...