biobrick

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From bio- +‎ brick.

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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 ].