2016 ACS Synthetic Biology Issues

Summary

  • Total Articles Analyzed: 169
  • Total Figures in All Articles: 886
  • Figures Compatible with SBOL Visual: 217 (24.49%)
  • Figures Compatible with SBOL Visual & Fully Compliant: 136 (62.67%)
  • Figures Compatible with SBOL Visual & Following Best Practices: 90 (41.47%)

Individual issues

January

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Metabolic Engineering toward Sustainable Production of Nylon-611
Orthogonal Modular Gene Repression in Escherichia coli Using Engineered CRISPR/Cas940
CIDAR MoClo: Improved MoClo Assembly Standard and New E. coli Part Library Enable Rapid Combinatorial Design for Synthetic and Traditional Biology22

February

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Slowing Translation between Protein Domains by Increasing Affinity between mRNAs and the Ribosomal Anti-Shine–Dalgarno Sequence Improves Solubility10

March

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Multiple Gene Repression in Cyanobacteria Using CRISPRi11
Assays To Detect the Formation of Triphosphates of Unnatural Nucleotides: Application to Escherichia coli Nucleoside Diphosphate Kinase11
Circumvention of Learning Increases Intoxication Efficacy of Nematicidal Engineered Bacteria11
Measurements of Gene Expression at Steady State Improve the Predictability of Part Assembly33

April

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Automatic Control of Gene Expression in Mammalian Cells10

June

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Improving Synthetic Biology Communication: Recommended Practices for Visual Depiction and Digital Submission of Genetic Designs11
Genotype Specification Language11
A Converter from the Systems Biology Markup Language to the Synthetic Biology Open Language44
The SBOL Stack: A Platform for Storing, Publishing, and Sharing Synthetic Biology Designs11
Sharing Structure and Function in Biological Design with SBOL 2.033
Double Dutch: A Tool for Designing Combinatorial Libraries of Biological Systems33

July

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Two Distinct Cyclodipeptide Synthases from a Marine Actinomycete Catalyze Biosynthesis of the Same Diketopiperazine Natural Product11
Optical Control of Peroxisomal Trafficking10
Multiplexed Targeted Genome Engineering Using a Universal Nuclease-Assisted Vector Integration System33
Refactoring the Six-Gene Photosystem II Core in the Chloroplast of the Green Algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii10
Synthetic Quorum Sensing and Cell–Cell Communication in Gram-Positive Bacillus megaterium10
Molecular Buffers Permit Sensitivity Tuning and Inversion of Riboswitch Signals30
Entrainment and Control of Bacterial Populations: An in Silico Study over a Spatially Extended Agent Based Model10
A Minimal Model of Ribosome Allocation Dynamics Captures Trade-offs in Expression between Endogenous and Synthetic Genes22
Bacterial Genome Editing with CRISPR-Cas9: Deletion, Integration, Single Nucleotide Modification, and Desirable “Clean” Mutant Selection in Clostridium beijerinckii as an Example44
Repurposing Synechocystis PCC6803 UirS–UirR as a UV-Violet/Green Photoreversible Transcriptional Regulatory Tool in E. coli11
CRISPR/Cas9 Based Genome Editing of Penicillium chrysogenum44

August

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Using RNA as Molecular Code for Programming Cellular Function22
VisBOL: Web-Based Tools for Synthetic Biology Design Visualization22

September

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Programming Surface Chemistry with Engineered Cells11
Quorum Sensing Communication Modules for Microbial Consortia32
DATEL: A Scarless and Sequence-Independent DNA Assembly Method Using Thermostable Exonucleases and Ligase22

October

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Mammalian Synthetic Biology: Time for Big MACs22
EcoFlex: A Multifunctional MoClo Kit for E. coli Synthetic Biology20
Expanding Biosensing Abilities through Computer-Aided Design of Metabolic Pathways10
Library-Aided Probing of Linker Determinants in Hybrid Photoreceptors10
An Implementation-Focused Bio/Algorithmic Workflow for Synthetic Biology32
SEVA Linkers: A Versatile and Automatable DNA Backbone Exchange Standard for Synthetic Biology20

November

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Construction and Characterization of a Synthetic MicroRNA Cluster for Multiplex RNA Interference in Mammalian Cells40
A Cell–Cell Communication-Based Screening System for Novel Microbes with Target Enzyme Activities11
EcoExpress—Highly Efficient Construction and Expression of Multicomponent Protein Complexes in Escherichia coli11
Optimum Rebalancing of the 3-Hydroxypropionic Acid Production Pathway from Glycerol in Escherichia coli10
Metabolic Engineering of Escherichia coli for the Production of 3-Hydroxypropionic Acid and Malonic Acid through β-Alanine Route10
Microbial Synthesis of 5-Aminolevulinic Acid and Its Coproduction with Polyhydroxybutyrate33
Biosensing Vibrio cholerae with Genetically Engineered Escherichia coli33
Development of Colorimetric-Based Whole-Cell Biosensor for Organophosphorus Compounds by Engineering Transcription Regulator DmpR11
Semirational Approach for Ultrahigh Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) Accumulation in Escherichia coli by Combining One-Step Library Construction and High-Throughput Screening11

December

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The Geobacillus Plasmid Set: A Modular Toolkit for Thermophile Engineering11
Combinatorial Pairwise Assembly Efficiently Generates High Affinity Binders and Enables a “Mix-and-Read” Detection Scheme10
Design and Assembly of DNA Sequence Libraries for Chromosomal Insertion in Bacteria Based on a Set of Modified MoClo Vectors30
Tapping the Unused Potential of Photosynthesis with a Heterologous Electron Sink11
C-Brick: A New Standard for Assembly of Biological Parts Using Cpf130
Programming Saposin-Mediated Compensatory Metabolic Sinks for Enhanced Ubiquinone Production10
A Parts Database with Consensus Parameter Estimation for Synthetic Circuit Design22
Development of Design Rules for Reliable Antisense RNA Behavior in E. coli52
Converting a Natural Protein Compartment into a Nanofactory for the Size-Constrained Synthesis of Antimicrobial Silver Nanoparticles11
OptSSeq: High-Throughput Sequencing Readout of Growth Enrichment Defines Optimal Gene Expression Elements for Homoethanologenesis55
Multigene Pathway Engineering with Regulatory Linkers (M-PERL)44
Biosynthesis of the High-Value Plant Secondary Product Benzyl Isothiocyanate via Functional Expression of Multiple Heterologous Enzymes in Escherichia coli20