Addgene's Tips for Plasmid Quality Control
Type
Blog Post
Published
Jan. 14, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
...antibiotic resistance, restriction sites used during cloning, and most importantly, the predicted full plasmid...quality, as it will catch any errors made during the cloning, sample handling, or sequence assembly steps.
All...call the “insert,” (the gene or genetic element cloned into the plasmid) and any other important features...its predecessor. Important features may include cloning junctions (where most sequence assembly errors ...mutations, in-frame protein fusions, and multiple cloning sites. In the simplest case we have a standard ...plasmid sequences (examples include Benchling, Serial Cloner, and Snapgene), and save these to a shared computer...