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Jacob Beal is affiliated with Raytheon in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research primarily focuses on molecular biology and intersects with computer networks and communications, biophysics, biomedical engineering, and information systems and management.

Beal's work covers several main topics, including gene regulatory network analysis, CRISPR and genetic engineering, microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction, bioinformatics and genomic networks, scientific computing and data management, modular robots and swarm intelligence, and distributed control multi-agent systems.

Frequent co-authors of Jacob Beal include:

  • Chris J. Myers
  • Bryan Bartley
  • Tom Mitchell
  • Nicholas Roehner
  • Mark Weston

Jacob Beal has published numerous articles in prominent venues such as:

  • ACS Synthetic Biology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Berichte aus der medizinischen Informatik und Bioinformatik/Journal of integrative bioinformatics
  • Synthetic Biology
  • Harvard Dataverse

Selected recent publications authored or co-authored by Jacob Beal include:

  • Robust estimation of bacterial cell count from optical density, 2020, Communications Biology
  • The long journey towards standards for engineering biosystems, 2020, EMBO Reports

Additional notable related publications in the synthetic biology open language (SBOL) domain include:

  • The Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL) Version 3: Simplified Data Exchange for Bioengineering, 2020, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
  • Synthetic biology open language (SBOL) version 3.1.0, 2023, Berichte aus der medizinischen Informatik und Bioinformatik/Journal of integrative bioinformatics
  • Synthetic biology open language (SBOL) version 3.0.0, 2020, Berichte aus der medizinischen Informatik und Bioinformatik/Journal of integrative bioinformatics

Best Publications

  • Cas9 gRNA engineering for genome editing, activation and repression

    Samira Kiani;Alejandro Chavez;Alejandro Chavez;Marcelle Tuttle;Richard N Hall

  • The Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL) provides a community standard for communicating designs in synthetic biology

    Michal Galdzicki;Kevin P. Clancy;Ernst Oberortner;Matthew Pocock

  • CIDAR MoClo: Improved MoClo Assembly Standard and New E. coli Part Library Enable Rapid Combinatorial Design for Synthetic and Traditional Biology.

    Sonya V. Iverson;Traci L. Haddock;Jacob Beal;Douglas M. Densmore

  • Infrastructure for engineered emergence on sensor/actuator networks

    J. Beal;J. Bachrach

  • Aggregate Programming for the Internet of Things

    Jacob Beal;Danilo Pianini;Mirko Viroli

  • CRISPR transcriptional repression devices and layered circuits in mammalian cells

    Samira Kiani;Jacob Beal;Mohammad R Ebrahimkhani;Jin Huh

  • Organizing the Aggregate: Languages for Spatial Computing

    Jacob Beal;Stefan Dulman;Kyle Usbeck;Mirko Viroli

  • Protelis: practical aggregate programming

    Danilo Pianini;Mirko Viroli;Jacob Beal

  • Automatic Compilation from High-Level Biologically-Oriented Programming Language to Genetic Regulatory Networks

    Jacob S. Beal;Ting Lu;Ron Weiss

  • Biochemical complexity drives log-normal variation in genetic expression

    Jacob Beal

  • An End-to-End Workflow for Engineering of Biological Networks from High-Level Specifications

    Jacob Beal;Ron Weiss;Douglas Densmore;Aaron Adler

  • Engineering Resilient Collective Adaptive Systems by Self-Stabilisation

    Mirko Viroli;Giorgio Audrito;Jacob Beal;Ferruccio Damiani

  • Composable continuous-space programs for robotic swarms

    Jonathan Bachrach;Jacob Beal;James McLurkin

  • SBOL Visual: A Graphical Language for Genetic Designs

    Jacqueline Y. Quinn;Robert Sidney Cox;Aaron Adler;Jacob Beal

  • Sharing Structure and Function in Biological Design with SBOL 2.0.

    Nicholas Roehner;Jacob Beal;Kevin Clancy;Bryan Bartley

  • From distributed coordination to field calculus and aggregate computing

    Mirko Viroli;Jacob Beal;Ferruccio Damiani;Giorgio Audrito

  • Accurate predictions of genetic circuit behavior from part characterization and modular composition.

    Noah Davidsohn;Jacob Beal;Samira Kiani;Aaron Adler

  • Fast self-healing gradients

    Jacob Beal;Jonathan Bachrach;Dan Vickery;Mark Tobenkin

  • Quantification of bacterial fluorescence using independent calibrants

    Jacob Beal;Traci Haddock-Angelli;Geoff Baldwin;Markus Gershater

  • Programming an amorphous computational medium

    Jacob Beal

  • Methods and apparatus for energy demand management

    Jacob S. Beal;Jonathan R. Bachrach

Frequent Co-Authors

Mirko Viroli
Mirko Viroli University of Bologna
Chris J. Myers
Chris J. Myers University of Colorado Boulder
Herbert M. Sauro
Herbert M. Sauro University of Washington
Soura Dasgupta
Soura Dasgupta University of Iowa
John H. Gennari
John H. Gennari University of Washington
Guy-Bart Stan
Guy-Bart Stan Imperial College London
Nicolas Le Novère
Nicolas Le Novère Babraham Institute
George M. Church
George M. Church Harvard University

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