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Breaking through the complexity barrier in synthetic biology
2010-08-10     Text Size:  A
Institute of Theoretical Physics
Chinese Academy of Sciences
学术报告
Title
题目
Breaking through the complexity barrier in synthetic biology
Speaker
报告人
Prof. Norman Packard
ProtoLife Inc., European Centre for Living Technology, and Santa Fe Institute
Date
日期
2010-08-10 PM 15:30 Tuesday
Venue
地点
ITP New Building 6420, 理论物理研究所新楼四层多媒体教室
Abstract
摘要

Living systems are canonical examples of complex systems, as they are 
made up of many diverse microscopic components that have strong 
nonlinear interactions that make their behavior difficult or 
impossible to predict from first principles. In addition, it is  
difficult to predict what effects modification of the components will 
have. We will discuss this problem in light of recent efforts to 
construct an artificial cell, as well as other efforts in synthetic 
biology. Finally, we will discuss an approach to coping with the 
barrier, by using iterated high throughput experiments with 
Evolutionary Design of Experiments, a combination of random 
exploration and statistical modeling. The approach will be 
illustrated with an experiment that optimizes cell-free protein 
synthesis. 

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