Hello all, I am preparing a few operons and genes for synthesis, to be contained on a vector for routine functional uses. The less I have to pay for synthesis the better, and the smaller the ultimate size of the vector, the better.
Viruses routinely use alternative frames and overlapping sequences to cram as much coding material into as little DNA as possible. Bacteria do this for some genes, also. Essentially they use the degenerate code to "hide" extra code within their genome, similar to existing and popular stenographical methods that use the largely degenerate bits in a bitmap colour map. Has anyone created a web tool or program that can take two or more peptide or DNA sequences and interlace them in this manner, to create an overlapping gene that requires less space? Or are there any coding+DNA gurus out there that would have the smarts to create such a thing? Thanks, Cathal -- letters.cunningprojects.com twitter.com/onetruecathal http://www.indiebiotech.com _______________________________________________ Methods mailing list [email protected] http://www.bio.net/biomail/listinfo/methods
