Imperial College/Courses/Spring2008/Synthetic Biology/Resources
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General Reviews about Synthetic Biology
- Voigt CA. Genetic parts to program bacteria. Curr Opin Biotechnol 2006 Oct; 17(5) 548-57. doi:10.1016/j.copbio.2006.09.001 pmid:16978856.
- Endy D. Foundations for engineering biology. Nature 2005 Nov 24; 438(7067) 449-53. doi:10.1038/nature04342 pmid:16306983.
- Andrianantoandro E, Basu S, Karig DK, and Weiss R. Synthetic biology: new engineering rules for an emerging discipline. Mol Syst Biol 2006; 2 2006.0028. doi:10.1038/msb4100073 pmid:16738572.
- Hasty J, McMillen D, and Collins JJ. Engineered gene circuits. Nature 2002 Nov 14; 420(6912) 224-30. doi:10.1038/nature01257 pmid:12432407.
- Drubin DA, Way JC, and Silver PA. Designing biological systems. Genes Dev 2007 Feb 1; 21(3) 242-54. doi:10.1101/gad.1507207 pmid:17289915.
Web Resources about Synthetic Biology
- SyntheticBiology.org
- BioBricks Foundation
- Registry of Standard Biological Parts
- international Genetically Engineered Machine Competition (iGEM) ( Imperial Team 2006, Imperial Team 2007)
- Royal Society Summer Exhibition 2007: 'Building Living Machines'
- 'Google News' on 'Synthetic Biology'
- Synthetic Biology DSpace@MIT:
- Synthetic Biology WebCasts (Berkley)
- Engineering Biology: a talk with Drew Endy (Edge.org)
- Useful Keywords: synthetic biology, biological engineering, biobricks, standard assembly, iGEM, Registry of Standard Biological Parts, E.Coli, Plasmids, Cloning, Cell Chassis ...
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Software Resources
- CellDesigner (v.3.5.2), free download.
- PlasmaDNA, University of Helsinki, free download.
- MediaWiki (OWW script), Open Source.



