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ArticleEMBO reports2020

The long journey towards standards for engineering biosystems: Are the Molecular Biology and the Biotech communities ready to standardise?

Jacob Beal, Angel Goñi-Moreno, Chris Myers, Ariel Hecht, María Del Carmen de Vicente, Maria Parco, Markus Schmidt, Kenneth Timmis, Geoff Baldwin, Steffi Friedrichs and 8 more

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Article in EMBO reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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

39 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

18 authors.

Jacob BealRaytheon BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Angel Goñi-MorenoSchool of Computing, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
Chris MyersUniversity of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8762-8444
Ariel HechtGinkgo Bioworks, Inc., Boston, MA, USA.
María Del Carmen de VicenteEuropean Commission, Directorate General for Research and Innovation, Brussels, Belgium.
Maria ParcoIN Srl, Udine, Italy.
Markus SchmidtBiofaction, Wien, Austria.
Kenneth TimmisInstitute of Microbiology, Technical University Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany.
Geoff BaldwinImperial College, London, UK.
Steffi FriedrichsAcumenIST, Brussels, Belgium.
Paul FreemontImperial College, London, UK.
Daisuke KigaWaseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
Elena OrdozgoitiAsociación Española de Normalización (UNE), Madrid, Spain.
Maja RennigNovo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.
Leonardo RiosInstitute for Bioengineering and Centre for Synthetic and Systems Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4387-984X
Kristie TannerDarwin Bioprospecting Excellence, Paterna, Spain.
Víctor de LorenzoCentro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB) CSIC, Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-6041-2731
Manuel PorcarInstitute for Integrative Systems Biology, University of Valencia, Paterna, Spain.

Funding

Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (H2020) 820699NSF | Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) 1522074
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Synthetic biology needs to adopt sound scientific and industry-like standards in order to achieve its ambitious goals of efficient and accurate engineering of biological systems.

Indexed as

Molecular BiologySynthetic BiologyBiotechnologyReference Standards

Identifiers

PMID32337821
PMCPMC7202200

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