Revealing the Mysteries Within Microbial Genomes

The Boba-seq logo, created by former Arkin Lab undergraduate student researcher Davian Ho. A drawing of a large cup of boba tea, where the boba pearls represent expressed genes

Adam Arkin’s lab has developed a new technique, barcoded overexpression bacterial shotgun library sequencing (Boba-seq), that will make it much easier for researchers to discover the traits or activities encoded by genes of unknown function in microbes.

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