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Parts, property and sharing

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We are grateful to S. Panke, B. Rutz and W. Weber for comments on earlier versions of the paper and for sharing insights about synthetic biology with us.

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Henkel, J., Maurer, S. Parts, property and sharing. Nat Biotechnol 27, 1095–1098 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt1209-1095

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