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Genome Refactoring

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Kuldell, N., Lerner, N. (2009). Writing and Speaking as Biological Engineers. In: Genome Refactoring. Synthesis Lectures on Synthetic Biology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-02569-3_4

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