Open AccessExpanding the genetic alphabet
Author(s) -
Janelle Weaver
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
biotechniques
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.617
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1940-9818
pISSN - 0736-6205
DOI - 10.2144/000114554
Subject(s) - alphabet , organism , computational biology , genetics , biology , genetic code , base (topology) , computer science , dna , mathematics , linguistics , philosophy , mathematical analysis
Synthetic biologists have engineered a semisynthetic organism that can store increased genetic information using an alphabet consisting of six letters that form three base pairs. Janelle Weaver learns how they did it.
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