Re: [DIYbio] Re: Requesting your thoughts on a yogurt-based nutraceutical platform

Chemical/polymerase mutagenesis is far, far cheaper to do than synthesising millions of mutants. The challenge is creating a screening system to pick the "good mutants" from a pool of millions.

"Mega [Andreas Stuermer]" <masterstorm123@gmail.com> wrote:

Wouldn't error-prone PCR and re->transformation count as "mutagenesis", 
without the hazard of genome wide mutation? 

The first time you do this, yes. 
Next time you can synthesize it witha computer and it is synbio. 

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