If you are planning a trip through several cities and want to find the shortest route, you resort to algorithms, a well-defined sequence of deterministic operations. This article accompanies the ...

The process of cellular engineering is rapidly accelerating owing to advances in technologies to manipulate DNA and other biomolecules, giving rise to the field of synthetic biology. A meeting was ...

The goal of most microarray experiments is to survey patterns of gene expression by assaying the expression levels of thousands to tens of thousands of genes in a single assay. Typically, RNA is first ...