Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

Deep learning to predict the lab-of-origin of engineered DNA

  • Alec A. K. Nielsen,
  • Christopher A. Voigt

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05378-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The synthetic biology era has seen a rapidly growing number of engineered DNA sequences. Here, the authors develop a deep learning method to predict the lab-of-origin of a DNA sequence based on hidden design signatures.