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ArticleMicrobial biotechnology2022

In vivo, in vitro and in silico: an open space for the development of microbe-based applications of synthetic biology.

Antoine Danchin

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Article in Microbial biotechnology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Natural and Synthetic Metabolic Architectures.Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2026
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  10. Review onDrug design, development and therapy · 2024
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  14. Synthetic metabolism forRSC chemical biology · 2022
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  16. Synthetic biology beyond borders.Microbial biotechnology · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Antoine DanchinKodikos Labs, Institut Cochin, 24 rue du Faubourg Saint-Jacques, Paris, 75014, France.ORCID 0000-0002-6350-5001

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Living systems are studied using three complementary approaches: living cells, cell-free systems and computer-mediated modelling. Progresses in understanding, allowing researchers to create novel chassis and industrial processes rest on a cycle that combines in vivo, in vitro and in silico studies. This design-build-test-learn iteration loop cycle between experiments and analyses combines together physiology, genetics, biochemistry and bioinformatics in a way that keeps going forward. Because computer-aided approaches are not directly constrained by the material nature of the entities of interest, we illustrate here how this virtuous cycle allows researchers to explore chemistry which is foreign to that present in extant life, from whole chassis to novel metabolic cycles. Particular emphasis is placed on the importance of evolution.

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Computational BiologySynthetic Biology

Identifiers

PMID34570957
PMCPMC8719824

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