Synthetic promoter design for new microbial chassis

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 731-737

  Gilman, James ^a   Love, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Partial least squares modelling; Promoter; Synthetic biology; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE; SYNTHETIC DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIOPHAGE; BINDING SITE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC REGULATION; HYBRID GENE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSITION WEIGHT MATRIX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; BIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 85009773890     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: 14708752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST20160042     Document Type: Article

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