Synthetic biology aims to engineer biological systems for customized tasks through the
bottom-up assembly of fundamental building blocks, which requires high-quality libraries of …

Highlights•Synthetic biology aims to apply engineering principles in biology.•Insufficient part
libraries, standards, and software are challenges to the field.•Working on the challenges will …

Polyethylene terephthalate hydrolases (PETases) are a newly discovered and industrially
important class of enzymes that catalyze the enzymatic degradation of polyethylene …

The field of design and design automation of micro-/nano-circuits and systems has played a
pivotal role in advancing information technologies that are an inseparable part of all our …

Synthetic biology is creating genetically engineered organisms at an increasing rate for
many potentially valuable applications, but this potential comes with the risk of misuse or …

In nature, bacteria exhibit a limited repertoire of behaviors in response to environmental
changes. Synthetic biology has now opened up the possibility of programming cells or …

Synthetic biology research has led to the development of many software tools for designing,
constructing, editing, simulating, and sharing genetic parts and circuits. Among these tools …

The creative destruction caused by the coronavirus pandemic is yielding immense
opportunity for collaborative innovation networks. The confluence of biosciences …

Laboratory protocols are critical to biological research and development, yet difficult to
communicate and reproduce across projects, investigators, and organizations. While many …

Despite an ever-growing number of data sets that catalog and characterize interactions
between microbes in different environments and conditions, many of these data are neither …