In addition to providing more varied set of reagents and tools at USP, we are also setting up a São Paulo node for Reclone Reagent Collaboration Network.
Reclone, to quote their website, is “Creating a future where all biologists have equitable access to the reagents and tools they need to discover, build and innovate with biology.” On the main ways they are approaching this aim is by developing and distributing collections of DNA constructs that encode for enzymes for molecular biology and diagnostics, marker proteins and other tools. They are all created by Reclone teams and are free to use for any application, academic or industrial.
Their DNA collections include:
- Open Enzyme Collection with over 80 “workhorses” of molecular biology
- Open Reporter Collection over 30 chromoproteins, enzymes and other reporters
- Research Diagnostics Toolkit with “ready-to-express” tools for molecular diagnostics
- E. coli Protein Expression Toolkit that allows one to build your own expression systems
And there is more, all listed on Reclone reagents web page, with details in Github.
ORI will in due course replicate these collections and be able to provide these, on behalf of Reclone network locally for anyone interested in them.