Natural or synthetic? How Addgene’s dataset reveals trends in biological innovation
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Nov. 8, 2018, 3:47 p.m.
...: rare. “Nature has many genes where there are not rare codons and many genes where there are instances...trend of sourcing genes from distantly related organisms. In 2006, less than 1% of the genes deposited at ...synthetic or natural with 97.7% accuracy.
Classifying genes as natural or synthetic
But how can you tell if ...in a test set of 173 known synthetic and natural genes.
In designing and optimizing their algorithm, ...synthetic. But nine years later, over 20% of the genes deposited that year were synthetic. They also found... Proteobacteria - the most frequent transfer of genes is from Proteobacteria to mammalian expression vectors...Thompson. "Gene synthesis allows biologists to source genes from farther away in the tree of life." Nature communications...