Implementation of Complex Biological Logic Circuits Using Spatially Distributed Multicellular Consortia

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Macia, Javier ^a   Manzoni, Romilde ^a   Conde, Núria ^a   Urrios, Arturo ^a   de Nadal, Eulàlia ^a   Solé, Ricard ^a,b   Posas, Francesc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOREMEDIATION; COMPUTER CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; LOGIC CIRCUITS; REUSABILITY; SCALABILITY;

CIRCUIT DESIGNS; CIRCUIT IMPLEMENTATION; COMPUTATIONAL DEVICES; COMPUTATIONAL ELEMENTS; ENERGY PRODUCTIONS; GENERAL ARCHITECTURES; IN-VIVO; MODULAR DESIGNS; SENSING MOLECULES; WIRING REQUIREMENTS;

TIMING CIRCUITS;

GENETIC ENGINEERING; LOGIC; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; YEAST;

FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LOGIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; YEASTS;

EID: 84959572927     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004685     Document Type: Article

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