Readership
Bioengineers, Biologists, Biomedical Engineers/Technologists, Biomedical Researchers, Cell Biologists, Chemists, Computer Scientists, Cytologists, Environmental Epidemiologists, Health Scientists, Industrial Scientists, Medicinal Chemists, Molecular Biologists, Organic Chemists, Scientists, Technologists
Scope
ACS Synthetic Biology is a monthly peer-reviewed journal dedicated to research across all areas of synthetic biology. The journal is particularly interested in studies on the design and synthesis of new biological or biohybrid systems; computational methods in the design of biological or biohybrid systems; and the application of synthetic biology in various areas.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Design, engineering, and optimization of biological systems (e.g., genome engineering, nucleic acid engineering, protein engineering, metabolic engineering, pathway engineering, viral engineering, microbiome engineering);
Design, characterization, and assembly of genetic circuits and parts;
DNA synthesis or assembly methodologies;
Robotic platforms or biofoundries for synthetic biology;
Creative and innovative applications of cellular programming;
In vitro and cell-free synthetic biology and molecular programming;
Minimal cell design and construction;
Genomics and genome replacement strategies;
Computational methods including biophysical models, informatics-driven approaches, AI/ML algorithms, and/or other techniques to aid the design of biological systems;
Natural product discovery, engineering, and production;
Mammalian synthetic biology (e.g. engineering of therapeutic proteins, vaccines and therapies, immunotherapy, nucleic acid therapy, and stem cell therapy);
Plant synthetic biology (e.g. gene editing, pesticides, nitrogen fixation, crop nutrition, environmental tolerance);
Food synthetic biology (e.g. biomanufacturing of artificial meat, milk, and butter, food flavors and colorants);
Engineered biomaterials;
Metagenomics and synthetic metagenomic analysis;
Environmental applications (e.g., carbon capture, energy, mining, remediation).