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Dana Gretton

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyORCID 0000-0003-4726-9149Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:bacteria (other)· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1 Research Focus:variant calling· 1 Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 1

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Kevin M. EsveltiD· 2 shared Andrés FábregaiD· 1 shared Andrew Bo LiuiD· 1 shared Andrew Chi-Chih YaoiD· 1 shared Ben Weinstein-RauniD· 1 shared Brian WangiD· 1 shared Carsten BaumiD· 1 shared Cassandra Tong YeiD· 1 shared

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MicrobiologybioRxivPreprintOct 29, 2026

Complementing Biosafety Levels With Societal Safety Levels

Kevin M. Esvelt, Dana Gretton, Lennart J. Justen

The paper proposes Societal Safety Levels (SSLs) to complement Biosafety Levels (BSLs) by setting quantitative thresholds for expected public fatalities from laboratory research on pandemic pathogens.

DOI 10.64898/2026.10.28.762599

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Synthetic BiologybioRxivPreprintMar 20, 2024

Exact-match search with functional variant prediction enables automated DNA screening

Dana Gretton, Brian Wang, Rey Edison…·Kevin M. Esvelt

The paper introduces a method combining exact-match search with functional variant prediction to automate DNA synthesis screening for controlled genes.

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bacteria (other)whole-genome sequencing

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