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Measuring fitness is important for understanding how alteration of different cellular components affects a cell's ability to reproduce.
Fit-Seq2.0 provides an improved Python-based software tool for estimating genotype fitness in high-throughput pooled competition assays.
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May enable efficient fitness estimation in evolutionary assays; leaves open validation before routine adoption.
The fitness of a genotype is defined as its lifetime reproductive success, with fitness itself being a composite trait likely dependent on many underlying phenotypes. Measuring fitness is important for understanding how alteration of different cellular components affects a cell's ability to reproduce. Here, we describe an improved approach, implemented in Python, for estimating fitness in high throughput via pooled competition assays.
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