InfoBiology by printed arrays of microorganism colonies for timed and on-demand release of messages

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 40, 2011, Pages 16510-16514

  Palacios, Manuel A ^a   Benito Peña, Elena ^a   Manesse, Mael ^a   Mazzeo, Aaron D ^b   LaFratta, Christopher N ^a,c   Whitesides, George M ^b   Walt, David R ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BARD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biotechnology; Infochemistry; Information technology

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOMETRY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DATA ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOTYPE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEGANOGRAPHY BY PRINTED ARRAY OF MICROBE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INFORMATICS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 80053630033     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1109554108     Document Type: Article

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