Natural or synthetic? How Addgene’s dataset reveals trends in biological innovation
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Blog Post
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Nov. 8, 2018, 3:47 p.m.
... inquiry started when Neil Thompson, a research scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence...technological change happens really fast,” Thompson says.
To do this, Thompson reached out to MIT labs in the Synthetic...properties (GC content or rare codon percentage) and comparative properties (percent sequence identity and percent...query coverage) that could be determined through comparisons with a reference sequence database. Through a...content between many organisms and DNA synthesis companies often work within a narrow range for GC content...synthetic vs. natural gene are essential and complementary tools in a time where biological engineering...Kunjapur, Aditya M., Philipp Pfingstag, and Neil C. Thompson. "Gene synthesis allows biologists to source genes...