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Life from information

Methods that improve DNA synthesis with reduced error rate and those that facilitate cloning of large DNA segments will be valuable in rebuilding genomes and provide a stepping stone on the way to genome design.

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Figure 1: Workflow from sequence information to life.

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Voigt, C. Life from information. Nat Methods 5, 27–28 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth0108-27

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