Team:Virginia Commonwealth/Literature
From 2009.igem.org
Below is a compilation of papers and articles relevant to iGEM, synthetic biology and metabolic pathway engineering.
Introductions
- Adventures in synthetic biology a comic by Drew Endy
- Extreme genetic engineering: an introduction to synthetic biology by the ETC Group
- Engineering life: building a FAB for biology
- The iGEM competition: building with biology by James Brown
- Synthetic biology: lessons from the history of synthetic organic chemistry
- Systems biology as a foundation for genome-scale synthetic biology by B. Palsson et al.
Implications
- DNA synthesis and biological security
- The promise and perils of synthetic biology by J. Tucker and R. Zilinskas
Frameworks
- Foundations for engineering biology by Drew Endy
- Refinement and standardization of synthetic biological parts and devices
- Measuring the activity of BioBrick promoters using an in vivo reference standard
- Engineering BioBrick vectors from BioBrick parts by Reshma Shetty et al.
- Biology by design: reduction and synthesis of cellular components and behaviour by You et al.
- Genetic parts to program bacteria by Chris Voigt
- Toward scalable parts families for predictable design of biological circuits by Julius Lucks et al.
- Engineering microbes with synthetic biology frameworks
Technologies
Applications
- Synthetic biology for synthetic chemistry by Jay Keasling
Projects
- A synthetic oscillatory network of transcriptional regulators by Michael B. Elowitz and Stanislas Leibler
- Construction of a genetic toggle switch in Escherichia coli by James J. Collins et al.
- Environmentally controlled invasion of cancer cells by engineered bacteria by Chris Voigt et al.
Artemisinin project
- Production of isoprenoid pharmaceuticals by engineered microbes by Jay Keasling et al.
- Balancing a heterologous mevalonate pathway for improved isoprenoid production in Escherichia coli by Jay Keasling et al.