Fig 5. Uncatalogued genetic part variants to prioritize for characterization and inclusion in annotation databases.

(A) The final 217 variants of interest categorized by part type and by the kind of organism in which the part is typically used. Bars are shaded according to the method by which each variant was judged to be a priority for characterization and annotation: either it occurred in plasmids from ≥20 depositing labs (widespread, orange) or it was in plasmids from fewer labs but there was evidence that it was engineered or evolved multiple times from the authorship analysis (convergent, blue). (B) Names of the canonical parts to which the 217 variants are most closely related. Parts are categorized and sorted by function.