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Synthetic genomes engineered by SCRaMbLEing

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Zhang, F., Voytas, D.F. Synthetic genomes engineered by SCRaMbLEing. Sci. China Life Sci. 61, 975–977 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-018-9325-1

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