Measuring the burden of hundreds of BioBricks defines an evolutionary limit on constructability in synthetic biology.

In agreement with this hypothesis, we found a significant trend toward a higher standard error of the mean for growth rates measured for BioBrick plasmids that had higher burden ( p = 2.0 × 10 −11 , two-tailed t -test for a non-zero slope) (Supplementary Fig. 6 ).

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