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. 2011 Aug 5;6(8):e22490. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022490

Figure 1. Proto biocompiler architecture and example.

Figure 1

(a) This paper extends the Proto spatial computing language with mechanisms for genetic regulatory network design (pink). (b) An example showing how a simple high level behavioral specification is converted first into a dataflow network, then into a genetic regulatory network, and finally optimized. In this example, green fluorescence is turned ON only when both small molecule inputs aTc and IPTG are not present (aTc, anhydrotetracycline. IPTG, Isopropyl Inline graphic-D-1-thiogalactopyranoside). A–F represent transcriptional repressors to be chosen later from a parts library.