On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 09:21:49 +0200 Jens Staal <staal1...@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Jens, > Just wanted to share a preprint describing the generation of a > minimalistic plasmid which got 56% size reduction from elimination of > "useless bloat" DNA code, while actually gaining additional > functionality (more restriction enzyme cloning sites). > > https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/201807.0287/v2 > > The preprint paper is not really hypothesis-driven science as such > and more a description of the generation of a very useful tool, so I > do not think I will try to make it published "for real". this looks really interesting! Thanks for sharing this! I like to think of DNA as a Turing-tape and "optimizing" it (removing old cruft mostly) is a very adventurous and futuristic approach. With best regards Laslo -- Laslo Hunhold <d...@frign.de>
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