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Synthetic biologists may be closing in on potentially world-changing breakthroughs, but they are often hamstrung by a shortage of software tools.

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        Communications of the ACM  Volume 58, Issue 4
        April 2015
        86 pages
        ISSN:0001-0782
        EISSN:1557-7317
        DOI:10.1145/2749359
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        • Moshe Y. Vardi
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