Towards synthetic gene circuits with enhancers: Biology’s multi-input integrators

Subcellular Biochemistry

Volumn 64, Issue , 2012, Pages 3-20

  Amit, Roee ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bacterial enhancers; Biological computation; Digital computation; Gene regulatory networks; Synthetic enhancer

Indexed keywords

SYNTHETIC DNA;

ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGY; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENES, SYNTHETIC; HUMANS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84907227858     PISSN: 03060225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-5055-5_1     Document Type: Article

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