Laboratory Fundamentals of Synthetic Biology
From OpenWetWare Syllabus Class Format The Class will meet twice a week, one 2 hour classroom session, and one 3 hour lab session. Problem sets will be assigned weekly for the first eight weeks. Grades The final grade will be as follows: 20% Problem Sets 30% Midterm Exam 20% Lab Evaluations 30% Final Project Schedule Introduction - Synthetic Biology: History, current applications and future directions Powerpoint (w/content from Drew Endy) Assignments: Endy Article and Comic Strip The Biology (4 sessions) Cells, DNA, RNA and Protein DNA - information encoding, structure, sequencing and synthesis RNA - encoding, structure, function (RNA Enzymes, RNA Aptamers) Proteins - Crystallography, functions, scaffolds Introductory packet about DNA, RNA, Protein. Create a biobrick out of a sequence (force them to re-optimize a coding region into e. coli and remove a biobrick incompatibility). Reading List This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.
brains in silicon
Welcome to Brains in Silicon. Learn about the lab, get to know the brains that work here, and find out about new projects that you could join. We have crafted two complementary objectives: To use existing knowledge of brain function in designing an affordable supercomputer—one that can itself serve as a tool to investigate brain function—feeding back and contributing to a fundamental, biological understanding of how the brain works. We model brains using an approach far more efficient than software simulation: We emulate the flow of ions directly with the flow of electrons—don't worry, on the outside it looks just like software. Welcome and enjoy your time here!
Wallking Robots | Climbing and Walking Robots
Edited by Houxiang Zhang, ISBN 978-3-902613-16-5, 546 pages, Publisher: I-Tech Education and Publishing, Chapters published October 01, 2007 under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 licenseDOI: 10.5772/47 With the advancement of technology, new exciting approaches enable us to render mobile robotic systems more versatile, robust and cost-efficient. Some researchers combine climbing and walking techniques with a modular approach, a reconfigurable approach, or a swarm approach to realize novel prototypes as flexible mobile robotic platforms featuring all necessary locomotion capabilities. The purpose of this book is to provide an overview of the latest wide-range achievements in climbing and walking robotic technology to researchers, scientists, and engineers throughout the world.
Synbio 2007
From OpenWetWare General Info Spring 2007 Instructor: Jay Keasling (keasling@berkeley.edu) GSI: Jeffrey Dietrich (jadietrich@gmail.com) Logistics: Lecture/Discussion: 2 hours, 10-12 AM Friday Grading: Literature Review 30% Group Project 60% Class Participation 10% Office hours: contact Jeffrey Dietrich to arrange a meeting Announcements ASSIGNMENT (Due 2/16): email Jeff with your three top choices for topics to lead in literature review group discussion. Tentative Schedule 1/19 Introduction, Basis for Synthetic Biology - Jay Keasling 1/26 Modeling and Design of Synthetic Systems - Adam Arkin Genetic models, stochastic and continuous simulations, adaption of circuit methods to SB. 2/2 Drugs from Bugs-Jay Keasling 2/9 Design of Tumor-Killing Bacteria - J. Literature Review Assignment Every student will be required to lead one class discussion over selected readings/topics assigned for that week. Group Project Ideas Group projects from 2007 (Presentations and References) a. b. c. d. Policy Approach
The Scala Programming Language
Swarm Optimization | Swarm Intelligence
Edited by Felix T.S. Chan and Manoj Kumar Tiwari, ISBN 978-3-902613-09-7, 548 pages, Publisher: I-Tech Education and Publishing, Chapters published December 01, 2007 under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 licenseDOI: 10.5772/56938 In the era globalisation the emerging technologies are governing engineering industries to a multifaceted state. The escalating complexity has demanded researchers to find the possible ways of easing the solution of the problems. This has motivated the researchers to grasp ideas from the nature and implant it in the engineering sciences.
Music and Colour ( Color ): a new approach to the relationship
Rehabilitation Robotics
Edited by Sashi S Kommu, ISBN 978-3-902613-04-2, 648 pages, Publisher: I-Tech Education and Publishing, Chapters published August 01, 2007 under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 licenseDOI: 10.5772/50 The coupling of several areas of the medical field with recent advances in robotic systems has seen a paradigm shift in our approach to selected sectors of medical care, especially over the last decade. Rehabilitation medicine is one such area. The development of advanced robotic systems has ushered with it an exponential number of trials and experiments aimed at optimising restoration of quality of life to those who are physically debilitated. Despite these developments, there remains a paucity in the presentation of these advances in the form of a comprehensive tool.
Human Robot Interaction
Edited by Nilanjan Sarkar, ISBN 978-3-902613-13-4, 522 pages, Publisher: I-Tech Education and Publishing, Chapters published September 01, 2007 under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 licenseDOI: 10.5772/51 Human-robot interaction research is diverse and covers a wide range of topics. All aspects of human factors and robotics are within the purview of HRI research so far as they provide insight into how to improve our understanding in developing effective tools, protocols, and systems to enhance HRI.
Medical Robots | Medical Robotics
Edited by Vanja Bozovic, ISBN 978-3-902613-18-9, 536 pages, Publisher: I-Tech Education and Publishing, Chapters published January 01, 2008 under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 licenseDOI: 10.5772/54929 The first generation of surgical robots are already being installed in a number of operating rooms around the world. Robotics is being introduced to medicine because it allows for unprecedented control and precision of surgical instruments in minimally invasive procedures. So far, robots have been used to position an endoscope, perform gallbladder surgery and correct gastroesophogeal reflux and heartburn. The ultimate goal of the robotic surgery field is to design a robot that can be used to perform closed-chest, beating-heart surgery. Chapter 1 The Learning Curve of Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Surgery by E.
