- ▪I. Incer, A. Pandey, E. Peterson, N. Nolan, K. E. Galloway, R. M. Murray, E. D. Sontag, D. Del Vecchio, "Guaranteeing system-level properties in genetic circuits subject to context effects", In Proc. 2024 63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 5558-5565, 2024. pdf
Abstract
The identification of constraints on system parameters that will ensure that a system achieves desired requirements remains a challenge in synthetic biology, where components unintendedly affect one another by perturbing the cellular environment in which they operate. This paper shows how to solve this problem optimally for a class of input/output system-level specifications, and for unintended interactions due to resource sharing. Specifically, we show how to solve the problem based on the input/output properties of the subsystems and on the unintended interaction map. Our approach is based on the elimination of quantifiers in monotone properties of the system. We illustrate applications of this methodology to guaranteeing system-level performance of multiplexed and sequential biosensing and of bistable genetic circuits.
- ▪D. Del Vecchio, Y. Qian, R.M Murray, E.D. Sontag, "Future systems and control research in synthetic biology", Annual Reviews in Control, vol. 45, pp. 5-17, 2018. pdf
Abstract
This paper is a review of systems and control problems in synthetic biology, focusing on past accomplishments and open problems. It is partially a report on the workshop "The Compositionality Problem in Synthetic Biology: New Directions for Control Theory" held on June 26-27, 2017 at MIT, and organized by D. Del Vecchio, R. M. Murray, and E. D. Sontag