Synthetic Biology: Essentials

A First Course in Systems Biology by Eberhard Voit; Melissa L. Kemp A First Course in Systems Biology is an introduction to the growing field of systems biology for advanced undergraduates and grad students. Its focus is the design and analysis of computational models and their applications to diverse biomedical phenomena, from simple networks to complex pathway systems, signal transduction, and interacting populations. This third edition has been thoroughly updated. It provides an introduction to agent-based and multiscale modeling, a deeper account of biological design principles and the optimization of metabolic flux distributions. It also discusses novel topics of synthetic biology, personalized medicine and virtual clinical trials.

Nature's Genius by David Farrier In Nature's Genius, David Farrier takes us on a profound journey into this ever-changing natural world. What we discover could transform us. The ways animals adjust to the urban landscape can help us design sustainable cities. Examining other intelligences can help us remake our economies. Learning from bacterial evolution may help solve our waste problem. Synthetic biology could rescue animals from the brink of extinction. Thinking in timescales of the natural world could help us choose a better future. Life on Earth is changing; the question is, can we change with it? Can we remake the world to be fit for all life to thrive once more?

Synthetic biology: a lab manual by Josefine Liljeruhm (Author), Letian Bao (Author), Anthony C. Forster (Author) The first edition of this book was the first manual for laboratory work in the rapidly expanding field of synthetic biology. Based upon a highly successful university course by one of the pioneers in synthetic biology, the manual became particularly popular with students of the enormous annual international Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition. Questions at the time included the scalability of BioBrick cloning, how to stabilize chromoprotein expression and change the colors, and how to adapt methods for high schools and biohackers. A decade later, this second edition answers these questions with huge BioBrick constructs (front cover), next-generation less-toxic chromoproteins in a kit, and ultraviolet-light-free quantitation by smartphones. Further updates include a computational modeling lab and new avenues in SynBio.