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Setting the standard in synthetic biology

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Standards for characterization, manufacture and sharing of information about modular biological devices may lead to a more efficient, predictable and design-driven genetic engineering science.

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Figure 1: Examples of synthetic biological devices.

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  1. Adam Arkin is in the Department of Bioengineering, University of California Berkeley and the Physical Bioscience Division and the Virtual Institute of Microbial Stress and Survival at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Bldg. 977-257, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.,

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Arkin, A. Setting the standard in synthetic biology. Nat Biotechnol 26, 771–774 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0708-771

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