Engineering biological systems using automated biofoundries

R Chao, S Mishra, T Si, H Zhao - Metabolic Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
Engineered biological systems such as genetic circuits and microbial cell factories have
promised to solve many challenges in the modern society. However, the artisanal processes …

Statistical design of experiments for synthetic biology

J Gilman, L Walls, L Bandiera… - ACS synthetic …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The design and optimization of biological systems is an inherently complex undertaking that
requires careful balancing of myriad synergistic and antagonistic variables. However …

Evaluation of 244,000 synthetic sequences reveals design principles to optimize translation in Escherichia coli

G Cambray, JC Guimaraes, AP Arkin - Nature biotechnology, 2018 - nature.com
Comparative analyses of natural and mutated sequences have been used to probe
mechanisms of gene expression, but small sample sizes may produce biased outcomes. We …

An automated Design-Build-Test-Learn pipeline for enhanced microbial production of fine chemicals

P Carbonell, AJ Jervis, CJ Robinson, C Yan… - Communications …, 2018 - nature.com
The microbial production of fine chemicals provides a promising biosustainable
manufacturing solution that has led to the successful production of a growing catalog of …

Lessons from Two Design–Build–Test–Learn Cycles of Dodecanol Production in Escherichia coli Aided by Machine Learning

P Opgenorth, Z Costello, T Okada, G Goyal… - ACS synthetic …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The Design–Build–Test–Learn (DBTL) cycle, facilitated by exponentially improving
capabilities in synthetic biology, is an increasingly adopted metabolic engineering …

A pressure test to make 10 molecules in 90 days: external evaluation of methods to engineer biology

A Casini, FY Chang, R Eluere, AM King… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Centralized facilities for genetic engineering, or “biofoundries”, offer the potential to design
organisms to address emerging needs in medicine, agriculture, industry, and defense. The …

Towards next-generation cell factories by rational genome-scale engineering

S Yilmaz, A Nyerges, J van der Oost, GM Church… - Nature Catalysis, 2022 - nature.com
Metabolic engineering holds the promise to transform the chemical industry and to support
the transition into a circular bioeconomy, by engineering cellular biocatalysts that efficiently …

Retrosynthetic design of metabolic pathways to chemicals not found in nature

GM Lin, R Warden-Rothman, CA Voigt - Current Opinion in Systems …, 2019 - Elsevier
Biology produces a universe of chemicals whose precision and complexity is the envy of
chemists. Over the last 30 years, the expansive field of metabolic engineering has many …

Multidimensional heuristic process for high-yield production of astaxanthin and fragrance molecules in Escherichia coli

C Zhang, VY Seow, X Chen, HP Too - Nature Communications, 2018 - nature.com
Optimization of metabolic pathways consisting of large number of genes is challenging.
Multivariate modular methods (MMMs) are currently available solutions, in which reduced …

Precise quantification of translation inhibition by mRNA structures that overlap with the ribosomal footprint in N-terminal coding sequences

A Espah Borujeni, D Cetnar, I Farasat… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
A mRNA's translation rate is controlled by several sequence determinants, including the
presence of RNA structures within the N-terminal regions of its coding sequences. However …