Saturday, May 20, 2006

"A novel genome vector for giant DNA assembly" - Mitsuhiro Itaya

Megacloning.

The purpose of Itaya's work was push DNA cloning to the limit by cloning the entire 3.2 Mb genome of Synechocystis into B. subtilis. The work took several years, and is summarized at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which also published the paper.

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