This multi-year work culminated almost two years ago now with the complete synthesis of the Mycoplasma genitalium genome 4. At every stage, we've had to develop new methodology and tools.
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Tackling the global STI challenge of bacteria that cause chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis and also Mycoplasma genitalium ... amounts of human DNA, making genome sequencing of bacterial STIs a ...