AI-Powered Synthetic Biology: Current Situation, Challenges, and Future Perspectives
By: Izem Olcay Sahin, Nuriye Gokce, Duygu T. Yildirim, A. Baki Yildirim, Hilal Akalın, Donald Martin, Tommaso Beccari, Oscar Vicente, Iza Radecka, Fideline Tchuenbou-Magaia, Robert S. Marks, Ratnesh Lal, Satya Prakash, Adam Mechler, Mario Petrov Milkov, Svetlana Fotkova Georgieva, Ilia Iliev, Kosi Gramatikoff, Ed Judge, Milica Markovic, Radka Kaneva, Galina Aleksieva Yaneva, Nadya Vasileva Agova, Nikoleta Dobromirova Ivanova, Mariya Kiryakova Tsvetkova, Ivelin Rosenov Iliev, Michel Salzet, Kisung Ko, Michele Maffia, Chiara Coppola, Matteo Bertelli, Isabelle Fournier, Lejla Pojskic, Qun Sun, Lembit Nei, Reynir Armgrisson, Gary Henehan, Daumantas Matulis, Dijana Plaseska-Karanfilska, K. Santacruz-Gomez, Isabel Belo, Štefánia Hrončeková, Sehime G. Temel, Ole K. Greiner-Tollersrud, Dana Tapaloaga, Andreas Janecke, Ivana Marova, Benedetta Spedicato, Polona Žnidaršič-Plazl, Igor Plazl, Ariola Bacu, Anargyros N. Moulas, Alexander Kilchevsky, M. Sait Dundar, P. Bartolini, Anita Slavica, Francisco Fuentes, Jose Carlos Lorenzo Feijoo, Andrés Izquierdo Romero, Helal Ragab Moussa, Amin Hejazi, Attya Bhatti, Bajram Berisha, Alma Kokhmetova, Nikolai Zhelev, Juraj Krajcovic, Viktor Nedovic, Alla Salmina, Mark Nujiten, İrem Kalay, Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad, Luis Izquierdo Lopez, Dominika Vešelényiová, Maria Rachele Ceccarini, Bernard Fioretti, Gergana P. Ilieva, M. Cerkez Ergoren, Noursaid Tligui, Serghei Sprincean, Saharuddin Bin Mohamad, Miklos Kellermayer, Esra Arslan Ates, Pembe Savas, Ivana Márová, Martin Koller, Hakan Gurkan, Erhan Parıltay, Ercument Ovalı, Sevda Yesim Ozdemir, Tanil Kocagoz, Hilmi Tozkir, Gunnur Demircan, Eda Tahir Turanli, Havva Cobanogullari, Victor Nedovic, Victor Revin, Recep Eroz, Annika Joy Meitern and Munis Dundar
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