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TeachMeFinance.com - explain Cosmid Cosmid The term 'Cosmid' as it applies to the area of gnome research can be defined as 'Artificially constructed cloning vector containing the cos gene of phage lambda. Cosmids can be packaged in lambda phage particles for infection into E. coli; this permits cloning of larger DNA fragments (up to 45kb) than can be introduced into bacterial hosts in plasmid vectors'.
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