Full Design Automation of Multi-State RNA Devices to Program Gene Expression Using Energy-Based Optimization

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Rodrigo, Guillermo ^a   Landrain, Thomas E ^a   Majer, Eszter ^b   Daròs, José Antonio ^b   Jaramillo, Alfonso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ D EVRY VAL D ESSONNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; GENE EXPRESSION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; REACTION KINETICS;

5′-UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; DESIGN AUTOMATIONS; ENERGY-BASED; GENES EXPRESSION; MULTI-STATE; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMISATIONS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL FRAMEWORKS; PROTEIN EXPRESSIONS; SMALL RNA;

RNA;

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BASE PAIRING; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; ENERGY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PHASE TRANSITION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROCESS DESIGN; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA STABILITY; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84882640175     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003172     Document Type: Article

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