title: Network benchmarking: a happy marriage between systems and synthetic biology.
abstract: In their new Cell paper, Cantone et al. (2009) present exciting results on constructing and utilizing a small synthetic gene regulatory network in yeast that draws from two rapidly developing fields of systems and synthetic biology.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 2300 Hayward, 3074 H.H. Dow, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
authors.forename: Jeremy J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Minty
authors.forename: S Marjan
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Varedi K
authors.forename: Xiaoxia
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Nina Lin