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biobrick

noun

Etymology

From bio- + brick.

  1. derived from *brekan✻ — “to break”
  2. derived from bricke
  3. inherited from brik
  4. prefixed as biobrick — “bio + brick”

Definitions

  1. A length of DNA sequence used, with others, to build synthetic biological circuits

    • During amplification, the internal EcoRI restriction site in merA was mutated in order to create a mer cassette compatible with the biobrick cloning system and the vector pBBRBB (see Materials and Methods ) [27 ].

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for biobrick. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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