CHE.496/2008/Assignments
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Assigned Readings
Assignment 1: Synthetic biology overview
Assignment 2: Foundational technologies
- Foundations for engineering biology link
- Synthetic biology: promises and challenges link
- The iGEM competition: building with biology link
Assignment 3: Engineering principles
- Synthetic biology - putting engineering into biology link
- Synthetic biology: new engineering rules for an emerging discipline link
Assignment 4: Genetic programming
- Idempotent vector design for standard assembly of biobricks link
- Genetic parts to program bacteria link
Assignment 5: Natural biological parts
- Another side of genomics: Synthetic biology as a means for the exploitation of whole-genome sequence information link
- Codon bias and heterologous protein expression link
Assignment 6: Practical applications
- Advances in synthetic biology: on the path from prototypes to applications link
- Molecular switches for cellular sensors link
Assignment 7: Social implications
Assignment 8: Engineering biology
Assignment 9: Biological machines
- Designing biological systems link
- Biology by design: Reduction and synthesis of cellular components and behavior link
Assignment 10: Minimal genomes
Assignment 11: Minimal cells
Assignment 12: Genetic circuit engineering
- A synthetic oscillatory network of transcriptional regulators link
- Construction of a genetic toggle switch in Escherichia coli link
Assignment 13: Genetic circuit engineering
- Environmentally controlled invasion of cancer cells by engineered bacteria link
- Environmental signal integration by a modular AND gate link
Assignment 14: Metabolic pathway engineering
- Bioengineering novel in vitro metabolic pathways using synthetic biology link
- Production of the antimalarial drug precursor artemisinic acid in engineered yeast link
Assignment 15: Systems biology
- The evolution of molecular biology into systems biology link
- Integrating 'omic information: A bridge between genomics and systems biology link
Assignment 16: Systems biology and synthetic biology
- Systems biology as a foundation for genome-scale synthetic biology link
- From systems biology to synthetic biology link
- Modular approaches to expanding the functions of living matter link
Assignment 17: Computational Biology
- Modelling cellular behaviour link
- Bioinformatics analysis for genome design and synthetic biology link
Assignment 18: Biological networks
Assignment 19: Metabolic modeling
- Use of genome-scale microbial models for metabolic engineering link
- Microbial regulatory and metabolic networks link
Assignment 20: RNA synthetic biology
Assignment 21: The future of synthetic biology