Review:
Cultivation of Synthetic Biology with the iGEM Competition
Thiprampai Thamamongood*1, Nathaniel Z. L. Lim*2,
Trevor Y.H. Ho*2, Shotaro Ayukawa*3, Daisuke Kiga*4,
and King L. Chow*2
*1Department of Biological Information, Tokyo Institute of Technology, J2-1707, 4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa 226-8503, Japan
*2Division of Life Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong
*3Education Academy of Computational Life Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa 226-8501, Japan
*4Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, J2-1707, 4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa 226-8503, Japan
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