Team:Virginia Commonwealth/Literature

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.
 * <font color="#000000">Engineering microbes with synthetic biology frameworks

Technologies

 * <font color="#000000">Idempotent Vector Design for Standard Assembly of Biobricks by Tom Knight

Applications

 * <font color="#000000">Synthetic biology for synthetic chemistry by Jay Keasling

Projects

 * <font color="#000000">A synthetic oscillatory network of transcriptional regulators by Michael B. Elowitz and Stanislas Leibler
 * <font color="#000000">Construction of a genetic toggle switch in Escherichia coli by James J. Collins et al.
 * <font color="#000000">Environmentally controlled invasion of cancer cells by engineered bacteria by Chris Voigt et al.

Artemisinin project

 * <font color="#000000">Production of isoprenoid pharmaceuticals by engineered microbes by Jay Keasling et al.
 * color="#000000">Balancing a heterologous mevalonate pathway for improved isoprenoid production in Escherichia coli by Jay Keasling et al.