ɪn ðæt jˈɪɹ dʒˈɛfɚsən ænd kˈɑːliːɡz pˈʌblɪʃt ɐ lˈændmɑːɹk pˈeɪpɚɹ ɪn nˈeɪtʃɚ ɪnwˌɪtʃ ðeɪ dᵻskɹˈaɪbd ɐ nˈuː bˌaɪəlˈɑːdʒɪkəl ˈoʊpən sˈoːɹs ɪnvˈɛnʃən, tɹˈænz bˈæktɚ.
In that year Jefferson and colleagues published a landmark paper in Nature  in which they described a new biological open source invention, TransBacter.