Fig 1. Many non-canonical genetic parts are found on plasmids.

(A) Representation of genetic part variants in Addgene plasmids with sequences that differ from those present in annotation databases. Each blue points represent the total number of variant genetic parts observed in a category. Each orange points represents the number of unique genetic part variants with distinct sequences. (B) How different variant genetic part sequences are from their canonical sequences in the annotation databases. Boxes represent lower and upper quartiles (the interquartile range). Vertical lines within each box are medians. The whiskers correspond to 1.5 times the interquartile range. Points are outliers outside this range.