ESSENTIAL GENES WITH NO FUNCTION. “The crux of the story is this: an astonishing number of the genes added to Syn 3.0 at the behest of their computer model, while apparently essential for life, have no known function. Their final genome had exactly 473 genes in it, and a whopping 149 of these are currently mysterious.” Not no function, just none yet known. Syn 3.0 was a minimal genome creation.
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022