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ReviewNature communications2021

Sensing the future of bio-informational engineering.

Thomas A Dixon, Thomas C Williams, Isak S Pretorius

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Review in Nature communications, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
33citing papers in PubMed
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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

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

33 citing papers in PubMed.

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  9. Developing Quorum Sensing-Based Collaborative Dynamic Control System in Halomonas TD01.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  12. Review on Advancement of AI in Synthetic Biology.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025
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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

3 authors.

Thomas A Dixon *Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia. thom.dixon@mq.edu.au.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4746-2301
Thomas C Williams *Department of Molecular Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0594-3441
Isak S PretoriusChancellery, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9127-3175

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The practices of synthetic biology are being integrated into 'multiscale' designs enabling two-way communication across organic and inorganic information substrates in biological, digital and cyber-physical system integrations. Novel applications of 'bio-informational' engineering will arise in environmental monitoring, precision agriculture, precision medicine and next-generation biomanufacturing. Potential developments include sentinel plants for environmental monitoring and autonomous bioreactors that respond to biosensor signaling. As bio-informational understanding progresses, both natural and engineered biological systems will need to be reimagined as cyber-physical architectures. We propose that a multiple length scale taxonomy will assist in rationalizing and enabling this transformative development in engineering biology.

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ForecastingBioengineeringSynthetic Biology

Identifiers

PMID33452260
PMCPMC7810845

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