Synthetic Genomics Inc

The author would like to thank the Synthetic Biology Group at JCVI for the helpful discussions and Synthetic Genomics, Inc. for funding this work. 

The author thanks Vladimir Larionov at the National Institutes of Health for the gift of yeast strains and vectors and Clyde Hutchison for helpful comments. This work was supported by Synthetic Genomics, Inc. 

Another example of algae-based research was announced in July 2009, when ExxonMobil announced a joint venture with Synthetic Genomics Inc. to investigate the synthesis of biofuel from natural and engineered strains of algae [30]. 

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