Genetic circuit building blocks for cellular computation, communications, and signal processing

Natural Computing

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 47-84

  Weiss, Ron ^a   Basu, Subhayu ^a   Hooshangi, Sara ^a   Kalmbach, Abigail ^a   Karig, David ^a   Mehreja, Rishabh ^a   Netravali, Ilka ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell cell communications; Cellular computation; Directed evolution; Genetic signal processing; Synthetic gene networks

Indexed keywords

DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

BIOENGINEERING; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL FUNCTION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER MODEL; DNA MODIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LIBRARY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIMULATION; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

HARNESS;

EID: 1042282182     PISSN: 15677818     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023307812034     Document Type: Review

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