Abstract
The practices of synthetic biology are being integrated into ‘multiscale’ designs enabling two-way communication across organic and inorganic information substrates in biological, digital and cyber-physical system integrations. Novel applications of ‘bio-informational’ engineering will arise in environmental monitoring, precision agriculture, precision medicine and next-generation biomanufacturing. Potential developments include sentinel plants for environmental monitoring and autonomous bioreactors that respond to biosensor signaling. As bio-informational understanding progresses, both natural and engineered biological systems will need to be reimagined as cyber-physical architectures. We propose that a multiple length scale taxonomy will assist in rationalizing and enabling this transformative development in engineering biology.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 388 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-12 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Nature Communications |
| Volume | 12 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 15 Jan 2021 |
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