An end-to-End workflow for engineering of biological networks from high-level specifications

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 317-331

  Beal, Jacob ^a   Weiss, Ron ^b   Densmore, Douglas ^c,d   Adler, Aaron ^a   Appleton, Evan ^d   Babb, Jonathan ^b   Bhatia, Swapnil ^c   Davidsohn, Noah ^b   Haddock, Traci ^d   Loyall, Joseph ^a   Schantz, Richard ^a   Vasilev, Viktor ^d   Yaman, Fusun ^a  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BioCAD; Compilation; Design automation; Design tools; DNA assembly; High level design; Part assignment; Specification

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; DOXORUBICIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BIOENGINEERING; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENETIC REGULATION; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ALGORITHMS; BIOENGINEERING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; SOFTWARE; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; WORKFLOW;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA;

EID: 84868257400     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sb300030d     Document Type: Article

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