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| - | Building new functions into cells is the goal of synthetic biology. | + | Building new functions into cells is the goal of synthetic biology. To achieve this, circuits encoding for the desired behavior have to be inserted into an existing network of allready considerable complexity, where many of the interactions are not completely understood. By reducing the complexity of the target organism, this interdependencies can be reduced and more predictable results can be obtained. |
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| + | One of the main engineering goals in this field is to make the design of new circuits more deterministic, allowing for the simulation of new functions before these are implemented in vivo. Cross-talk between the different pathways in the organism and the additionally implemented circuits can lead to interferences, making the behavior non-deterministic. In such cases "debugging" of the inserted circuit can be extremely hard. | ||
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Why in this case simpler is better ...Building new functions into cells is the goal of synthetic biology. To achieve this, circuits encoding for the desired behavior have to be inserted into an existing network of allready considerable complexity, where many of the interactions are not completely understood. By reducing the complexity of the target organism, this interdependencies can be reduced and more predictable results can be obtained. One of the main engineering goals in this field is to make the design of new circuits more deterministic, allowing for the simulation of new functions before these are implemented in vivo. Cross-talk between the different pathways in the organism and the additionally implemented circuits can lead to interferences, making the behavior non-deterministic. In such cases "debugging" of the inserted circuit can be extremely hard.
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