User:Jarle Pahr/Synthetic biology
Notes on news and articles related to synthetic biology:
RNA-guided editing of bacterial genomes using CRISPR-Cas systems: http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v31/n3/full/nbt.2508.html
Amplifying genetic logic gates: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2013/03/27/science.1232758.abstract
RNA processing enables predictable programming of gene expression: http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v30/n10/full/nbt.2355.html
Ribozyme-based insulator parts: http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v30/n11/full/nbt.2401.html?WT.ec_id=NBT-201211
Organizations and websites
See also WikiGenes article - synthetic biology community: http://www.wikigenes.org/e/art/e/189.html
Companies
http://greeneconomypost.com/synthetic-biology-biofuel-biochemical-company-17244.htm
Intrexon: http://www.dna.com/
Amyris
Ls9
Solazyme
Synthetic Genomics
Synthace
Blogs and commentary
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/oscillator/
http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/
Work
http://www.indeed.co.uk/Synthetic-Biology-jobs-in-England
Concepts
Polymerases per second (POPS):
http://openwetware.org/wiki/PoPS
Genome engineering
See also http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Jarle_Pahr/Biology for biological systems exploited in genome engineering.
Minimal genomics
Chemical synthetic biology
Engineering a reduced Escherichia coli genome.: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11932248
Clean genome E coli: http://www.scarabgenomics.com/
See also http://openwetware.org/wiki/CHE391L/S13/Genome_Editing
Design languages
GenoCAD
GenoCAD tutorials: http://figshare.com/articles/GenoCAD_Training_Set_I/153827
Eugene
SBOL
SBOL visual: http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/78249
Persons/Research labs
Synthetic biology map: http://www.synbioproject.org/sbmap/
http://openwetware.org/wiki/Forster_Lab
http://www.leukippos.org/Leukippos_Institute/Leukippos_Institute_News.html
Haynes lab: http://openwetware.org/wiki/Haynes_Lab
Genome Consortium for active teaching (GCAT): http://gcat.davidson.edu/
Bibliography
SynBioSS designer: a web-based tool for the automated generation of kinetic models for synthetic biological constructs. Brief Bioinform, 11 (2010), pp. 394–402
Approaches to chemical synthetic biology.: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22265689
Synthetic genomics. Potential and limitations. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0958166912000298
FEBS Lett. 2012 Jul 16;586(15):2129-37. doi: 10.1016/j.febslet.2011.12.024. Epub 2012 Jan 2. Scaling up synthetic biology: Do not forget the chassis. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22226636
From essential to persistent genes: a functional approach to constructing synthetic life: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3642372/
MoClo Planner: Supporting Innovation in Bio Design through Multi touch Interaction: http://cs.wellesley.edu/~hcilab/publication/2012ITS-MoCloDemo.pdf
Designing Reality Based Interfaces for Experiential Bio Design: http://wiki.bu.edu/wiki/ece-cidar/images/e/ea/EIST_journal_03-29-Final.pdf
RESEARCH PAPER
Programming languages for synthetic biology : http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs11693-011-9070-y.pdf
COMMENTARY The ten grand challenges of synthetic life: http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs11693-011-9084-5.pdf
Evolving cell models for systems and synthetic biology Towards a whole-cell modeling approach for synthetic biology: http://covertlab.stanford.edu/publicationpdfs/ChaosJKarr2013.pdf
AutoBioCAD: Full Biodesign Automation of Genetic Circuits: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/sb300084h
Research highlight. Complex logic in a single layer: http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v10/n6/full/nmeth.2501.html
Grand challenges in synthetic biology to be accomplished: http://www.frontiersin.org/Synthetic_Biology/10.3389/fbioe.2013.00002/full
Xenobiology: A new form of life as the ultimate biosafety tool: http://www.markusschmidt.eu/pdf/Xenobiology-Schmidt_Bioessays_201004.pdf
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v27/n12/full/nbt1209-1109.html
Stacking nonenzymatic circuits for high signal gain.: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23509255
Amplifying Genetic Logic gates: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6132/599.abstract
Targeted Development of Registries of Biological Parts: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0002671
Survey of enabling technologies in synthetic biology: http://www.jbioleng.org/content/pdf/1754-1611-7-13.pdf
Review - ZFN, TALEN, and CRISPR/Cas-based methods for genome engineering: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167779913000875
Open Source Synthetic Biology: Problems and solutions: http://erepository.law.shu.edu/student_scholarship/47/
Synthetic Biology: It's an analog world: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature12246.html
Reviews
Impact of Synthetic Biology: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/sb400027x
Engineering for the 21st Century: Synthetic Biology: http://pubs.acs.org/stoken/presspac/presspac/full/10.1021/sb400039g
Ideas
A biological PID? Input and the objective to be controlled could be levels of a protein or a metabolite. Output would be summed from the activity of three transcription units. Would need a way to create a set-point and convert the difference between the present level and the set-point to serve as input to the PID circuit.
- Proportional term. Activity is proportional to input (current level).
- Integrative term. Activity is proportional to the total input over a recent timeframe (how can this be achieved?)
- Derivative term. Activity is proportional to the change in input over a recent timeframe (how can this be achieved?)
Might be helpful to study mechanical or analog PID circuits.
Projects
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/antonyevans/glowing-plants-natural-lighting-with-no-electricit
Software
MoClo planner: http://2012.igem.org/Team:Wellesley_HCI/MoClo_Planner
SBOL designer: http://clarkparsia.github.io/sbol/
https://github.com/Derkje-J/programming-life
http://coffeedoc.info/github/Derkje-J/programming-life/feature/undo/refactor/
Oligator: http://gcat.davidson.edu/igem10/
GoSynthetic - a synthetic biology workbench: http://gosyn.bioapps.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de./index.php
Plant synthetic biology
GoldenBraid2.0: A comprehensive DNA assembly framework for Plant Synthetic Biology: http://www.plantphysiol.org/content/early/2013/05/13/pp.113.217661.abstract
Parts and sequences
https://www.dna20.com/products/protein-paintbox
Terminators
Characterization of 582 natural and synthetic terminators and quantification of their design constraints: http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nmeth.2515.html
Insulators
Ribozyme-based insulator parts buffer synthetic circuits from genetic context: http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v30/n11/abs/nbt.2401.html
RNA processing enables predictable programming of gene expression: http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v30/n10/full/nbt.2355.html
Genetic circuits
A genetic bistable switch utilizing nonlinear protein degradation.: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22776405
Oscillators
Elowitz & Leiber 2000. A synthetic oscillatory network of transcriptional regulators.: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10659856?dopt=Abstract&holding=npg
Toggle switches
Gardner et al. 2000. Construction of a genetic toggle switch in Escherichia coli: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v403/n6767/full/403339a0.html
Courses and conferences
http://syntheticbiology.org/Courses.html
http://www.bio.davidson.edu/projects/gcat/GCATSynBio.html#workshops
DNA synthesis
DNA synthesis, assembly and applications in synthetic biology. Current opinion in chemical biology [1367-5931] 2012 vol:16 iss:3-4 pg:260 -7. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1367593112000622