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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michele Swanson, and Michael Schmidt.
A deep sequencing study of commercially available probiotics, and design and synthesis of a minimal bacterial genome are the topics tackled by Vincent, Michael, and Michele on this episode of TWiM.
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- Culture-independent surveillance of probiotics (mSphere)
- Design and synthesis of a minimal bacterial genome (Science)
- J. Craig Venter Institute
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