DocumentCode :
189680
Title :
Synthetic biology: A control engineering perspective
Author :
Prescott, Thomas P. ; Papachristodoulou, Antonis
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Oxford, Oxford, UK
fYear :
2014
fDate :
24-27 June 2014
Firstpage :
1182
Lastpage :
1186
Abstract :
Synthetic Biology is a new, rapidly developing field at the interface of Engineering and Biology. It aims to design new, or redesign existing biological systems for a particular purpose. The early years have seen the design of simple devices and parts (such as switches and oscillators); Synthetic Biology is now entering a new phase of development as the successfully designed devices of recent years are exploited to create systems of increasing sophistication. Control theoretic techniques play an important part in the design of these networks, as well as for allowing increasing levels of complexity to be engineered into synthetic biological systems. At the same time, the implementation of feedback control in these networks will allow them to sense, process and actuate on environmental and internal cues.
Keywords :
cellular biophysics; molecular biophysics; biological networks; complexity; control engineering perspective; synthetic biological systems; Feedback control; Genetics; Robustness; Synthetic biology; Systems biology; Tuning;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Control Conference (ECC), 2014 European
Conference_Location :
Strasbourg
Print_ISBN :
978-3-9524269-1-3
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ECC.2014.6862638
Filename :
6862638
Link To Document :
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