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The crucial role of CS in systems and synthetic biology
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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 51 ,  Issue 5  (May 2008) table of contents
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Pages 15-18  
Year of Publication: 2008
ISSN:0001-0782
Author
Jacques Cohen  Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Publisher
ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

Biological cells, coerced to function as hardware and driven by artificial DNA, can perform such nanoscale tasks as detecting toxic substances and manufacturing new drugs.


REFERENCES

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Campbell, A.M. Meeting report: Synthetic biology jamboree for undergraduates. Cell Biology Education 4, 1 (Spring 2005), 19--23.
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E. W. Dijkstra, Solution of a problem in concurrent programming control, Communications of the ACM, v.8 n.9, p.569, Sept. 1965  [doi>10.1145/365559.365617]
 
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Gardner, T.S., Cantor, C.R., and Collins, J.J. Construction of a genetic toggle switch in Escherichia coli. Nature 403, 6767 (Jan. 2000).
 
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Hopkin, K. Life: The next generation: Engineers and biologists team up to create synthetic biological systems. The Scientist 18, 19 (Oct. 2004).
 
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Kitano, H. Systems biology: A brief overview. Science 295, (Mar. 2002).
 
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Phillips, A., Cardelli, L., and Castagna, G. A graphical representation for biological processes in the stochastic pi-calculus. Transactions in Computational Systems Biology LN in CS 4230 (Nov. 2006), 123--152.
 
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Pollack, A. The race to read genomes on a shoestring, relatively speaking. New York Times (Feb. 9, 2008).
 
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Shapiro, E. and Benenson, Y. Bringing DNA computers to life. Scientific American 294, 5 (May 2006), 45--51.

CITED BY
Corrado Priami, Algorithmic systems biology, Communications of the ACM, v.52 n.5, May 2009

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  J. Computer Applications
  J.3 LIFE AND MEDICAL SCIENCES

Additional Classification:
  J. Computer Applications
  J.7 COMPUTERS IN OTHER SYSTEMS

  K. Computing Milieux
  K.7 THE COMPUTING PROFESSION
      K.7.0 General


General Terms:
Experimentation


REVIEW

"Simon Berkovich : Reviewer"

Synthetic biology deals with artificial DNA that is designed to perform the tasks involved in reengineering cell behavior. In advocating this approach, Cohen has two objectives: to urge computer scientists to follow the given field closely, and to  more...

Collaborative Colleagues:
Jacques Cohen: colleagues

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