title: The genetic code. Rewritten, revised, repurposed.
abstract: Despite remaining apparently frozen through the millennia, the genetic code is far more flexible than previously believed and can be extended and repurposed with relative ease.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Biological Sciences; Cork Institute of Technology; Cork, Ireland.
authors.forename: Roy D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Sleator
mesh_terms: D003062:Codon; D015870:Gene Expression; D005815:Genetic Code
chemical_list: D003062:Codon
keywords: nonstandard amino acids (NSAAs); recoding; synthetic DNA; unnatural base pairs (UBPs)