Bottom-up assembly of viral replication cycles
Oskar Staufer, Gösta Gantner, Ilia Platzman, Klaus Tanner, Imre Berger, Joachim P. Spatz
Abstract
Bottom-up synthetic biology provides new means to understand living matter by constructing minimal life-like systems. This principle can also be applied to study infectious diseases. Here we summarize approaches and ethical considerations for the bottom-up assembly of viral replication cycles.
Topics & Concepts
Replication (statistics)Viral replicationComputational biologyBiologyComputer scienceVirologyVirusEvolution and Genetic DynamicsCRISPR and Genetic EngineeringGene Regulatory Network Analysis