Synthetic analog and digital circuits for cellular computation and memory

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 146-155

  Purcell, Oliver ^a   Lu, Timothy K ^a,b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG COMPUTERS; BIOLOGY; COMPLEX NETWORKS; GENES;

ANALOG COMPUTATION; BIOLOGICAL COMPUTATIONS; ENGINEERING CONCEPTS; GENETIC CIRCUITS; RECENT PROGRESS; RECORD INFORMATION; SYNTHETIC ANALOGS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

DIGITAL CIRCUITS;

CYTARABINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LUXR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

BIOENGINEERING; BIOLOGY; CELL FUNCTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; CELLULAR COMPUTATION; CLASSIFIER; GENE CIRCUIT; LOGIC; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; ANIMAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PROCEDURES; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMANS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84899838922     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: 18790429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2014.04.009     Document Type: Review

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