Golden gate vs Gibson assembly?

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Elise Cachat

It depends the context of your assembly: Gibson works very well for one-off assemblies, while Golden Gate is more modular if you need to design a set of assemblies.

Di Xia

Gibson assembly may not work for short and/or repetitive sequences.

Yifan Zhang

Thank you so much for all your answers! Any comments on which is more efficient and robust?