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Plasmid repository distribution

Non-profit physical distribution of plasmids, viral vectors and recombinant antibodies, absorbing the material-transfer-agreement burden that would otherwise fall on individual laboratories.

Where it's used

iGEM infrastructure, BioBricks and standard genetic parts
The shared substrate synthetic biology runs on — a registry of standard parts and the student competition that populates it, nonprofit plasmid repositories, commercial gene synthesis reaching 7,000 base pairs on complex sequences, and automated biofoundries whose assemblies are now validated by long-read sequencing.
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