January 18th, 2012 | Category: Computing, Papers | Leave a comment

Computer aided synthetic biology

Posted by Thomas Howard

This is another quick post to draw attention to a new paper in Science. There is a précis in Nature Reviews Genetics to get you started: Synthetic biology: Simplifying design. An advance is presented in a paper that demonstrates a computer-aided approach for designing RNA-based devices with predictable functional properties in Escherichia coli.