Engineering genetic circuits that compute and remember

Nature Protocols

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1292-1300

  Siuti, Piro ^a,b,c   Yazbek, John ^b,c   Lu, Timothy K ^a,b  

^a USA   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANHYDROTETRACYCLINE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; RECOMBINASE;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETIC CIRCUIT; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CHEMISTRY; DATA STORAGE DEVICE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR COMPUTER; PROCEDURES;

COMPUTER STORAGE DEVICES; COMPUTERS, MOLECULAR; GENETIC ENGINEERING; RECOMBINASES;

EID: 84901856677     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2014.089     Document Type: Article

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