Open-source, community-driven microfluidics with Metafluidics

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 523-529

  Kong, David S ^a   Thorsen, Todd A ^a   Babb, Jonathan ^b   Wick, Scott T ^a   Gam, Jeremy J ^b   Weiss, Ron ^b,c   Carr, Peter A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; DIGITAL MICROFLUIDICS; FLUIDIC DEVICES; OPEN SYSTEMS;

ASSEMBLY SPECIFICATIONS; BIOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS; CELL-FREE EXPRESSION; DEVICE COMPLEXITY; DIGITAL DESIGNS; DNA ASSEMBLIES; GENETIC CIRCUITS; MICRO-FLUIDIC DEVICES;

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

SYNTHETIC DNA; DNA;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DNA ASSEMBLY; DNA STRUCTURE; INFORMATION SYSTEM; METAFLUIDICS; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROTECHNOLOGY; MINIATURIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TECHNOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL PRINTING; ALGORITHM; DEVICES; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOFTWARE;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DNA; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 85020397588     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt.3873     Document Type: Review

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