Advances and computational tools towards predictable design in biological engineering

Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine

Volumn 2014, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Pasotti, Lorenzo ^a   Zucca, Susanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING SITES; BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FORECASTING; GENE EXPRESSION; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING; BIOLOGICAL PARTS; COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS; CONTEXT DEPENDENT; EXPRESSION SYSTEM; PREDICTABLE DESIGN; RIBOSOME BINDING SITES; TRIAL-AND-ERROR APPROACH;

DESIGN;

MESSENGER RNA;

BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BIOENGINEERING; CODON USAGE; DNA FLANKING REGION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE SEQUENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REPORTER GENE; REVIEW; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TRANSLATION INITIATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; PROCEDURES; RIBOSOME; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

BIOENGINEERING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; RIBOSOMES; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84911485288     PISSN: 1748670X     EISSN: 17486718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2014/369681     Document Type: Review

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