Synthetic Mycoplasma genome project

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J. Craig Venter Institute
http://www.jcvi.org/

Hamilton O. Smith, synthetic biology group leader
http://www.jcvi.org/research/

JCVI Scientists Publish First Bacterial Genome Transplantation Changing One Species to Another
http://www.jcvi.org/press/news/news_2007_06_28.php

Key publications:
The Minimal Gene Complement of Mycoplasma genitalium (1995)
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/270/5235/397

Genome Transplantation in Bacteria: Changing One Species to Another (2007)
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1144622