Varigen Biosciences Biosynthetic Gene Cluster Custom Cloning Service

Varigen Biosciences has launched custom cloning of bacterial or fungal biosynthetic gene clusters of up to 100 kb in length. The company said that its DNAtrap technology enables it to deliver intact gene cluster clones from microbes in 10 days. Varigen has cloned 32 PKS, NRPS, and other pathways of interest with high fidelity from dozens of bacterial and fungal strains. In addition, for already-cloned pathways the firm offers shuttling to its new heterologous BGC expression vector.