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Center for Quantitative Genome Function: Publications

Burbulis I, Yamaguchi K, Gordon A, Carlson R, Brent R: (2005) Using protein-DNA chimeras to detect and count small numbers of molecules. Nat Methods, 2:31-37. [ PubMed | PDF ]

Cao, Y., D. T. Gillespie, and Petzold, L.R. (2005). "Avoiding negative populations in explicit Poisson tau-leaping." J Chem Phys 123(5): 054104. [ PubMed | PDF ]

Chan, L. Y., S. Kosuri, and Endy, D. (2005). "Refactoring bacteriophage T7." Mol Syst Biol 1: 2005 0018. [ PubMed | PDF ]

Colman-Lerner A, Gordon A, Serra E, Chin T, Resnekov O, Endy D, Pesce CG, Brent R (2005) Regulated cell-to-cell variation in a cell-fate decision system. Nature, 437:699-706.
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Cook M, Soloveichik D, Winfree E, Bruck J: (2006) Programming with biochemistry. Submitted.

Fung TH, Ball GI, McQuiade SC, Chao S-H, Colman-Lerner A, Holl M, Meldrum DR: Microprinting on On-chip Cultures: Patterning of Yeast Cell Microarrays using Concalavin-A Adhesion. In ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress; Anaheim, CA: American Society of Mechanical Engineers: 2004.

Gordon A, Colman-Lerner A, Chin TE, Benjamin KR, Yu, R.C., Brent R: (2007) Single-cell quantification of molecules and rates using open-source microscope-basd cytometry. Nat Methods, [PDFs: article, supplement 1, supplement 2, supplement 3, supplement 5].

Hucka M, Finney A, Bornstein BJ, Keating SM, Shapiro BE, Matthews J, Kovitz BL, Schlistra MJ, Funahashi A, Doyle JC, et al.: (2004) Evolving a Lingua Franca and Associated Software Infrastructure for Computational Systems Biology: The Systems Biology Markup Language (SMBL) Project. Systems Biology, 1:41-53.

Levchenko A, Bruck J, Sternberg PW: (2004) Regulatory molecules that generate biphasic signal response in biological systems. Systems Biology, 1:139-148.

Lok, L. and R. Brent (2005). "Automatic generation of cellular reaction networks with Moleculizer 1.0." Nat Biotechnol 23(1): 131-6. [ PubMed | PDF ]

Lok, L. and R. Brent (2005). "Response to "On-the-fly" or "generate first" modeling." Nat Biotechnol 23(11): 1345. [ PDF ]

Riedel, M. and J. Bruck (2006). "Exact stochastic simulation of chemical reactions with event leaping." Submitted.

Shapiro BE, Hucka M, Finney A, Doyle J: (2004) MathSBML: a package for manipulating SBML-based biological models. Bioinformatics, 20:2829-2831. [ PubMed | PDF ]

Takahashi, K. (2005). "Protein crowding and localization in cellular signaling systems (Japanese)." HFSP Newsletter. [ PubMed ]

Yu R, Gordon A, Colman-Lerner A, Benjamin KR, Pincus D, Serra E, Holl M, Brent R: (2006) Signal propagation and establishment in yeast pheromone response system requires fast-acting negative feedback. Submitted.

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Research publications in preparation

Benjamin KR, Thomson T, Endy D, Brent R: (2006) Careful measurement reveals qualitative aspects of signaling and enables construction of principled quantitative models. In preparation.

Colman-Lerner A, Gordon A, Abola AP, Chin T, Yu R, Brent R: (2006) Quantification of cis-membrane events in a prototypic signal transduction pathway. In preparation.

Maxwell R, Resnekov O, Pincus D, Benjamin KR, Smith RD, Brent R: (2006) Phosphorylation-dependent functional connections among proteins in an information processing pathway. In preparation.

Pesce CG, Rockwell D, Gordon A, Colman-Lerner A, Brent R: (2006) Single gene mutants in S.cerevisiae alter fundamental statistical properties of quantitative system behavior. In preparation.

Yu R, Gordon A, Colman-Lerner A, Brent R: (2006) Linear information mapping in pheromone response signal transmission system requires protein kinase dependent negative feedback. In preparation.

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Reviews, commentaries and a thesis by Center scientists

Bio FABG, Baker D, Church G, Collins J, Endy D, Jacobson J, Keasling J, Modrich P, Smolke C, Weiss R: (2006) Engineering life: building a fab for biology. Sci Am, 294:44-51. [ PubMed ]

Brent R: (2004) A partnership between biology and engineering. Nat Biotechnol, 22:1211-1214. [ PubMed | PDF ]

Brent R: (2004) Intuition and innumeracy. Cell Biol Educ, 3:88-90. [ PubMed | PDF ]

Brent R: (2004) Building an artificial regulatory system to understand a natural one. Cell, 116:S73-74, 71 p following S76. [ PubMed | PDF ]

Brent R, Burbulis I: (2005) Reply to "Lamp for tadpoles". Nature Methods, 2:635-636. [ PubMed | PDF ]

Brent R, Bruck J: (2006) 2020 computing: can computers help to explain biology? Nature, 440:416-417. [ PubMed | PDF ]

Brent R, Lok L: (2005) Cell biology. A fishing buddy for hypothesis generators. Science, 308:504-506. [ PubMed | PDF ]

Cook M: Networks of relations. Pasadena: California Institute of Technology: 2005.

Endy D: (2005) Foundations for engineering biology. Nature, 438:449-453. [ PubMed | PDF ]

Lok L: (2002) Pathfinder and other tools for analyzing signal transduction networks. Ann N Y Acad Sci, 971:589-594. [ PubMed | PDF ]

Lok L: (2004) The need for speed in stochastic simulation. Nat Biotechnol, 22:964-965. [ PubMed | PDF ]

Shen Y, Smith RD: (2005) Advanced nanoscale separations and mass spectrometry for sensitive high-throughput proteomics. Expert Rev Proteomics, 2:431-447. [ PubMed ]

Takahashi K, Nanda S, Arjunan V, Tomita M: (2005) Space in systems biology of signaling pathways-towards intracellular molecular crowding in silico. FEBS Letters, 579:1783-1788.

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Important papers that lay the framework for the Center

Brent R: (2000) Genomic biology. Cell, 100:169-183. [ PubMed | PDF ]

Colman-Lerner A, Chin TE, Brent R: (2001) Yeast Cbk1 and Mob2 activate daughter-specific genetic programs to induce asymmetric cell fates. Cell, 107:739-750. [ PubMed | PDF ]

Conrads TP, Anderson GA, Veenstra TD, Pasa-Tolic L, Smith RD (2000) Utility of accurate mass tags for proteome-wide protein identification. Anal Chem, 72:3349-3354. [ PubMed ]

Endy D, Brent R: (2001) Modelling cellular behaviour. Nature, 409:391-395. [ PubMed | PDF ]

Gibson, M. A. and J. Bruck (2000). "Efficient exact stochastic simulation of chemical systems with many species and channels." J. Phys Chem 104: 1876-1889. [ PDF ]

Levchenko A, Bruck J, Sternberg PW: (2000) Scaffold proteins may biphasically affect the levels of mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling and reduce its threshold properties. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 97:5818-5823. [ PubMed ]

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Publications about Center science

Molecular tadpoles for quantitation of biomolecules (2005). American Chemical Society. 87A.

Nolan, G. (2005). "Tadpoles by the tail." Nat Methods 2(1): 11-12.

Owens, J. (2005). "Fishing for proteins." Nature Reviews Drug Discovery S3.

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Publications about Center scientists

"From the cells up".(2005) The Guardian, March 10, 2005.

Editors (2004). Ten Emerging Technologies That Will Change Your World. MIT Technology Review. February: 32-51.

Ferber, D. (2005). "Microbes Made to Order." Science 303: 158-161

Gehl, J. (2004) Roger Brent and the Alpha Project. Ubiquity,  DOI:

Gibbs, W. W. (2004). Synthetic Life. Scientific American. May 2004: 75-81.

Johnson, N. (2005). "Steal this genome". East Bay Express.

Kamenetz (2006). Pop!Stars 2006. Fast Comany: 107.

Lowe, D. (2005). "Tadpoles to the rescue?"

Morton, O. (2005). Life, Reinvented. Wired Magazine. 13.

Rhoten, D. (2005) Mind the Gap. Inside Higher Education.

Russel, J. (2004) Synthetic Biology: The Real Thing. Bio-IT World.

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