Predicting the Genetic Stability of Engineered DNA Sequences with the EFM Calculator

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 939-943

  Jack, Benjamin R ^a   Leonard, Sean P ^a   Mishler, Dennis M ^a   Renda, Brian A ^a   Leon, Dacia ^a   Suárez, Gabriel A ^a   Barrick, Jeffrey E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

computer aided design (CAD); design build test cycle; genetic engineering; genetic robustness; hypermutable site; metabolic engineering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTIONARY FAILURE MODE CALCULATOR; GENETIC STABILITY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; INDEL MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEAT; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TRANSPOSON; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; PROCEDURES;

DNA;

DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; DNA; GENETIC ENGINEERING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84939805158     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.5b00068     Document Type: Article

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