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ReviewCurrent opinion in chemical biology2018

Synthetic genomics: a new venture to dissect genome fundamentals and engineer new functions.

Daniel Schindler, Junbiao Dai, Yizhi Cai

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Review in Current opinion in chemical biology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Advancements in Golden Gate Cloning: A Comprehensive Review.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025
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  9. Modular Assembly of Synthetic Secondary Chromosomes.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2024
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  10. Frontiers in genetics · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Daniel SchindlerManchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, M1 7DN Manchester, UK.
Junbiao DaiCentre for Synthetic Genomics, Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China.
Yizhi CaiManchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, M1 7DN Manchester, UK; Centre for Synthetic Genomics, Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China. Electronic address: yizhi.cai@manchester.ac.uk.

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/M005690/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/M017702/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/M025640/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Since the first synthetic gene was synthesized in 1970s, the efficiency and the capacity of made-to-order DNA sequence synthesis has increased by several orders of magnitude. Advances in DNA synthesis and assembly over the past years has resulted in a steep drop in price for custom made DNA. Similar effects were observed in DNA sequencing technologies which underpin DNA-reading projects. Today, synthetic DNA sequences with more than 10000bps and turn-around times of a few weeks are commercially available. This enables researchers to perform large-scale projects to write synthetic chromosomes and characterize their functionalities in vivo. Synthetic genomics opens up new paradigms to study the genome fundamentals and engineer novel biological functions.

Indexed as

Genes, SyntheticAnimalsDNAGenetic EngineeringGenomeGenomicsHumansSequence Analysis, DNASynthetic BiologyDNA

Identifiers

PMID29751161
PMCPMC6351456

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