biobrick

English

Alternative forms

• BioBrick

Etymology

bio- +‎ brick

Noun

biobrick (plural biobricks)

1. (genetics) A length of DNA sequence used, with others, to build synthetic biological circuits
   • 2016 January 14, “Toward Bioremediation of Methylmercury Using Silica Encapsulated Escherichia coli Harboring the mer Operon”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     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 ].