PlasmidHawk improves lab of origin prediction of engineered plasmids using sequence alignment

Advances in synthetic biology and genome engineering raise awareness of potential misuse. Here, the authors present PlasmidHawk, a sequence alignment based method for lab-of-origin prediction.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Qi Wang, Bryce Kille, Tian Rui Liu, R. A. Leo Elworth, Todd J. Treangen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21180-w