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No. You need a wheat cell as well. Then you might be in business. And, no, it is not possible (today) to rebuild a multi gigabase hexaploid genome. The best th
by eggie 8y ago
No. You need a wheat cell as well. Then you might be in business.
And, no, it is not possible (today) to rebuild a multi gigabase hexaploid genome. The best that's been done so far is mycoplasma (500kb genome, which is many orders of magnitude smaller).
Also, the "genome sequence" presented here is not really complete. Thus far only the simplest organisms have had their genomes synthesized from a digital template and resulted in a viable cell. We rarely can produce a "complete" genome for anything other than bacteria and viruses. And for those, the diversity in the population makes the idea of establishing a single genome sequence somewhat limiting.