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Sergey Shmakov

Researcher at National Institutes of Health

Publications -  45
Citations -  7045

Sergey Shmakov is an academic researcher from National Institutes of Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: CRISPR & Genome. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 41 publications receiving 4760 citations. Previous affiliations of Sergey Shmakov include Rutgers University & Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology.

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Diversity and evolution of class 2 CRISPR-Cas systems

TL;DR: A comprehensive census of class 2 types and class 2 subtypes in complete and draft bacterial and archaeal genomes is presented, evolutionary scenarios for the independent origin of different class 2 CRISPR–Cas systems from mobile genetic elements are outlined, and an amended classification and nomenclature of CRISpr–Cas is proposed.