title: Accelerating research through reagent repositories: the genome editing example.
abstract: Keith Joung, Dan Voytas and Joanne Kamens share insights into how the genome editing field was advanced by early access to biological resources and the role in this process that plasmid repositories play.
authors.affiliation: Molecular Pathology Unit, Center for Computational and Integrative Biology and Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, 02129, USA. jjoung@mgh.harvard.edu.|Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA. jjoung@mgh.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: J Keith
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Joung
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, and Center for Genome Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA. voytas@umn.edu.
authors.forename: Daniel F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Voytas
authors.affiliation: Addgene, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA. joanne.kamens@addgene.org.
authors.forename: Joanne
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kamens
mesh_terms: D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000600:supply & distribution; D016678:Genome; D033181:Information Dissemination; D010957:Plasmids / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*