Cis-acting regulatory elements: from random screening to quantitative design

Quantitative Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 107-114

  Meng, Hailin ^a   Wang, Yong ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

cis acting regulatory element; modeling; quantitative design; random mutation; synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007264668     PISSN: 20954689     EISSN: 20954697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40484-015-0050-1     Document Type: Review

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