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Work in Dai’s lab was supported by NSFC 31471254 and the Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China 20110002120055. This work was also supported by the Shenzhen Peacock Team Project (KQTD 2015033117210153).
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Dai, J., Cai, Y., Yuan, Y. et al. Whole genome synthesis: from poliovirus to synthetic yeast. Quant Biol 5, 105–109 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40484-017-0101-x
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