Essential information for synthetic DNA sequences

Jean Peccoud1, J Christopher Anderson2, Deepak Chandran3, Douglas Densmore4, Michal Galdzicki5, Matthew W Lux1, Cesar A Rodriguez6, Guy-Bart Stan7 & Herbert M Sauro3 1Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. 2Department of Bioengineering, QB3: California Institute for Quantitative Biological Research, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA. 3Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA. 4Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.5Biomedical and Health Informatics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA. 6BIOFAB, Emeryville, California, USA. 7Department of Bioengineering and Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation, Imperial College London, London, UK. e-mail: peccoud@vt.edu