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**Another commentary, Arkin and Fletcher discuss the different problems and advantages to engineering systems. They begin by showing that biology is able to be engineered, a point already proven by the many practicing synthetic biologists. One of the largest points they make is that the cell is in a dynamic environment. The cells themselves undergo evolutionary change, and the environments around them change. They then finish by saying that while this is a promising field, it is still new, and it is difficult to scale the work like other engineering disciplines. | **Another commentary, Arkin and Fletcher discuss the different problems and advantages to engineering systems. They begin by showing that biology is able to be engineered, a point already proven by the many practicing synthetic biologists. One of the largest points they make is that the cell is in a dynamic environment. The cells themselves undergo evolutionary change, and the environments around them change. They then finish by saying that while this is a promising field, it is still new, and it is difficult to scale the work like other engineering disciplines. | ||
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===Eyad Lababidi's Response=== | |||
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**.This article has an interesting point of view because weve read before about how synth bio needs to turn itself into an engineering discipline, but no one ever really questioned if it was possible. The article makes really good arguements of what if its liek the wheather where its to complex to control. This may be the case considering were dealing with real life and evolution, if evolution was the cause to allow life to withstand centuries of time who says we can even contain it. This is important because the biggest problems we have with harnessing cells as a chassis is that they are living organisms that do their best to survive, not to best suite us and produce the arbitrary chemicals we want for circuits. | |||
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Revision as of 14:15, 19 February 2008
Engineering biology
- Discussion leader: Brandon Freshcorn (Discussion guide)
Kevin Hershey's Response
- A partnership between biology and engineering
- The commentary by Roger Brent discusses the advantages of synthetic biologists with systems biologists. This is a logical progression for synthetic biologists, as synthetic biology is based on the individual parts. Just as synthetic biology combines different disciplines to be successful, so must it be a discipline in the larger sense of biological understanding. With the fusion of these two methodologies, computer scientists, biologists, electrical engineers, mathematicians, etc. can work towards a complete understanding of genetically modified bacteria. This combination of efforts will contribute to a better understanding of systems, and better predictive methods.
- Fast, cheap and somewhat in control
- Another commentary, Arkin and Fletcher discuss the different problems and advantages to engineering systems. They begin by showing that biology is able to be engineered, a point already proven by the many practicing synthetic biologists. One of the largest points they make is that the cell is in a dynamic environment. The cells themselves undergo evolutionary change, and the environments around them change. They then finish by saying that while this is a promising field, it is still new, and it is difficult to scale the work like other engineering disciplines.
- KPHershey 14:50, 19 February 2008 (EST)
Eyad Lababidi's Response
- Fast, cheap and somewhat in control
- .This article has an interesting point of view because weve read before about how synth bio needs to turn itself into an engineering discipline, but no one ever really questioned if it was possible. The article makes really good arguements of what if its liek the wheather where its to complex to control. This may be the case considering were dealing with real life and evolution, if evolution was the cause to allow life to withstand centuries of time who says we can even contain it. This is important because the biggest problems we have with harnessing cells as a chassis is that they are living organisms that do their best to survive, not to best suite us and produce the arbitrary chemicals we want for circuits.
