Programming biological operating systems: Genome design, assembly and activation

Nature Methods

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 521-526

  Gibson, Daniel G ^a,b  

^a J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Synthetic Genomics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ACHOLEPLASMA LAIDLAWII; ARTIFICIAL CELL; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CELL FUSION; CELL WALL; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA PURIFICATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TEMPLATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE PRODUCT; GENETIC CODE; GENOME SIZE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO CULTURE; MYCOPLASMA CAPRICOLUM; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; MYCOPLASMA MYCOIDES; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; PROCHLOROCOCCUS MARINUS; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPHEROPLAST;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELL-FREE SYSTEM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MYCOPLASMA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 84899698094     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15487105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.2894     Document Type: Review

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