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ArticleFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology2018

Cyberbiosecurity: An Emerging New Discipline to Help Safeguard the Bioeconomy.

Randall S Murch, William K So, Wallace G Buchholz, Sanjay Raman, Jean Peccoud

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Article in Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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32citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Cyber-biological convergence: a systematic review and future outlook.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2024
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  9. Five Things Not to Do When Discovering a Biosecurity Vulnerability.Applied biosafety : journal of the American Biological Safety Association · 2024
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  13. Cyberbiosecurity in high-containment laboratories.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2023
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  17. Advances in Synthetic Biology and Biosafety Governance.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2021
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  19. Assessing the Role of Cyberbiosecurity in Agriculture: A Case Study.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Randall S MurchVirginia Tech - National Capital Region, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Arlington, VA, United States.
William K SoWeapons of Mass Destruction Directorate, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington, DC, United States.
Wallace G BuchholzBiological Process Development Facility, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, United States.
Sanjay RamanVirginia Tech - National Capital Region, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Arlington, VA, United States.
Jean PeccoudDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cyberbiosecurity is being proposed as a formal new enterprise which encompasses cybersecurity, cyber-physical security and biosecurity as applied to biological and biomedical-based systems. In recent years, an array of important meetings and public discussions, commentaries and publications have occurred that highlight numerous vulnerabilities. While necessary first steps, they do not provide a systematized structure for effectively promoting communication, education and training, elucidation and prioritization for analysis, research, development, test and evaluation and implementation of scientific, technological, standards of practice, policy, or even regulatory or legal considerations for protecting the bioeconomy. Further, experts in biosecurity and cybersecurity are generally not aware of each other's domains, expertise, perspectives, priorities, or where mutually supported opportunities exist for which positive outcomes could result. Creating, promoting and advancing a new discipline can assist with formal, beneficial and continuing engagements. Recent key activities and publications that inform the creation of Cyberbiosecurity are briefly reviewed, as is the expansion of Cyberbiosecurity to include biomanufacturing which is supported by a rigorous analysis of a biomanufacturing facility. Recommendations are provided to initialize Cyberbiosecurity and place it on a trajectory to establish a structured and sustainable discipline, forum and enterprise.

Indexed as

bioeconomybiomanufacturingbiosecuritycyberbiosecuritycyber-physical securitycybersecuritysupply chain

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PMID29675411
PMCPMC5895716

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