Forward engineering of synthetic bio-logical AND gates

Biochemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 38-47

  Ramalingam, Kavita Iyer ^a   Tomshine, Jonathan R ^a   Maynard, Jennifer A ^a   Kaznessis, Yiannis N ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Biocomputing; Computer aided design; Gene regulatory networks; Logical AND gate; Multiscale models; Stochastic simulations; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPUTING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; LOGICAL AND GATE; MULTISCALE MODELS; STOCHASTIC SIMULATIONS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

BIOCHEMISTRY; CELL MEMBRANES; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DIGITAL CIRCUITS; ELECTRON TUBES; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; SIMULATORS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

AND GATE DEVICE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; DEVICE; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

EID: 69349083447     PISSN: 1369703X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bej.2009.06.014     Document Type: Article

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