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Comment
. 2017 Sep 27:5:57.
doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2017.00057. eCollection 2017.

Commentary: CRISPR-Cas Encoding of a Digital Movie into the Genomes of a Population of Living Bacteria

Ianis G Matsoukas  1
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Commentary: CRISPR-Cas Encoding of a Digital Movie into the Genomes of a Population of Living Bacteria

Ianis G Matsoukas. Front Bioeng Biotechnol. .
No abstract available

Keywords: DNA; biotechnology; chemical biology; clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats; genome engineering; synthetic DNA; synthetic biology.

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Encoding an image and a GIF into the genome. (A) A pixelated hand image. (B) A pixelated image of a galloping horse. (C) Exploiting the Escherichia coli type I–E clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats–CRISPR-associated system to encode a primitive digital movie into—and then “play it back” from the bacterial genome. Examples of the output at different sequence depths. Source: Shipman et al. (2017).
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