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Sustainable intensification and diversification of maize-based farming systems in Malawi: Final Report for the Period - 1 April 2012-31 March 2013
STOP using just GO: a multi-ontology hypothesis generation tool for high throughput experimentation
Pathways to cellular supremacy in biocomputing
Synthetic biology uses living cells as the substrate for performing human-defined computations. Many current implementations of cellular computing are based on the “genetic circuit” metaphor, an approximation of the operation of silicon-based computers. Although this conceptual mapping has been relatively successful, we argue that it fundamentally limits the types of computation that may be engineered inside the cell, and fails to exploit the rich and diverse functionality available in natural living systems. We propose the notion of “cellular supremacy” to focus attention on domains in which biocomputing might offer superior performance over traditional computers. We consider potential pathways toward cellular supremacy, and suggest application areas in which it may be found.A.G.-M. was supported by the SynBio3D project of the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/R019002/1) and the European CSA on biological standardization BIOROBOOST (EU grant number 820699). T.E.G. was supported by a Royal Society University Research Fellowship (grant UF160357) and BrisSynBio, a BBSRC/ EPSRC Synthetic Biology Research Centre (grant BB/L01386X/1). P.Z. was supported by the EPSRC Portabolomics project (grant EP/N031962/1). P.C. was supported by SynBioChem, a BBSRC/EPSRC Centre for Synthetic Biology of Fine and Specialty Chemicals (grant BB/M017702/1) and the ShikiFactory100 project of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement 814408
American Gut: an Open Platform for Citizen Science Microbiome Research
McDonald D, Hyde E, Debelius JW, et al. American Gut: an Open Platform for Citizen Science Microbiome Research. mSystems. 2018;3(3):e00031-18
Sustainable intensification and diversification of maize-based farming systems in Malawi
Diversifying conservation agriculture and conventional tillage cropping systems to improve the wellbeing of smallholder farmers in Malawi
iii TREE AND SOIL NITROGEN RESPONSES TO ALTERNATIVE GROUND COVER MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES IN ORGANIC APPLE PRODUCTION
ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank my committee members for their excellent guidance and support in this process. I would also like to thank the BioAg Program of the Center for Sustainin