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W&M iGEM 2015
2015 iGEM Project
The inability for researchers to predict properties of cellular processes with complete accuracy and precision, regardless of the amount of information that an observer has about the cell and its environment, confers a level of irreducible variability. This variability is commonly referred to as stochasticity or noise.
For a synthetic biologist designing a genetic network, it is critical to understand the level of noise present in the network’s components. Despite the extensive characterization of the average strength of the promoters available to synthetic biologists, very few have information pertaining to the variability in their expression. The 2015 project aimed to tease apart the extrinsic and intrinsic components of gene expression noise, and characterize the noise inherent to commonly used promoters in synthetic biology. Click here to learn more about the 2015 project. |
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