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ReviewFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology2014

Synthetic biology outside the cell: linking computational tools to cell-free systems.

Daniel D Lewis, Fernando D Villarreal, Fan Wu, Cheemeng Tan

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Review in Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Cell-Free Systems: A Proving Ground for Rational Biodesign.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2020
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  3. Article
  4. Mini-review:Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Daniel D LewisIntegrative Genetics and Genomics, University of California Davis , Davis, CA , USA ; Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California Davis , Davis, CA , USA.
Fernando D VillarrealDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of California Davis , Davis, CA , USA.
Fan WuDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of California Davis , Davis, CA , USA.
Cheemeng TanDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of California Davis , Davis, CA , USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As mathematical models become more commonly integrated into the study of biology, a common language for describing biological processes is manifesting. Many tools have emerged for the simulation of in vivo synthetic biological systems, with only a few examples of prominent work done on predicting the dynamics of cell-free synthetic systems. At the same time, experimental biologists have begun to study dynamics of in vitro systems encapsulated by amphiphilic molecules, opening the door for the development of a new generation of biomimetic systems. In this review, we explore both in vivo and in vitro models of biochemical networks with a special focus on tools that could be applied to the construction of cell-free expression systems. We believe that quantitative studies of complex cellular mechanisms and pathways in synthetic systems can yield important insights into what makes cells different from conventional chemical systems.

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artificial cellscell-free systemscomputational modelingdeterministic and stochastic simulationsin vitro modelpredictive modelingsynthetic biology

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PMID25538941
PMCPMC4260521

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