Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michele Swanson, and Michael Schmidt.

A deep sequencing study of commercially available probiotics, and design and synthesis of a minimal bacterial genome are the topics tackled by Vincent, Michael, and Michele on this episode of TWiM.

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Links for this episode

• Culture-independent surveillance of probiotics (mSphere)
• Design and synthesis of a minimal bacterial genome (Science)
• J. Craig Venter Institute
• Image credit
• Letters read on TWiM 125

This episode is sponsored by ASM Agar Art Contest and ASM Microbe 2016

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