Synthetic biology and regulatory networks: Where metabolic systems biology meets control engineering

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 13, Issue 117, 2016, Pages

  He, Fei ^a   Murabito, Ettore ^b   Westerhoff, Hans V ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Control engineering; Gene expression regulation; Metabolic engineering; Metabolic networks; Synthetic biology; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLISM; ROBUST CONTROL; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; CONTROL ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL PERTURBATIONS; HIERARCHICAL CONTROL; METABOLIC NETWORK; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

METABOLIC ENGINEERING;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; STANDARDS; TRENDS;

METABOLIC ENGINEERING; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84969959743     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2015.1046     Document Type: Review

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