US 12,191,002 B2
Dynamic characterization of synthetic genetic circuits in living cells
Neil Dalchau, Cambridge (GB); Andrew Nicholas John Brojer Phillips, London (GB); and Paul Grant, Cambridge (GB)
Assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US)
Filed by Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US)
Filed on Feb. 14, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/169,178.
Application 18/169,178 is a continuation of application No. 16/252,561, filed on Jan. 18, 2019, granted, now 11,694,766.
Claims priority of application No. 1810636.9 (GB), filed on Jun. 28, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0282303 A1, Sep. 7, 2023
Int. Cl. G16B 5/30 (2019.01); C12N 15/63 (2006.01); G16B 5/00 (2019.01); G16B 20/00 (2019.01); G16B 25/00 (2019.01)
CPC G16B 5/30 (2019.02) [C12N 15/63 (2013.01); G16B 5/00 (2019.02); G16B 20/00 (2019.02); G16B 25/00 (2019.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for determining an intrinsic property of a DNA component involved in transcription of a target signal, the method comprising:
accessing a plurality of measurements obtained over a time period from a cell culture, wherein each cell in the cell culture comprises the DNA component, and wherein the plurality of measurements comprises a first measurement relating to an amount of the target signal in the cell culture over the time period and a second measurement relating to a density of the cell culture of the time period;
estimating parameters quantifying the intrinsic property of the DNA component by:
embedding the estimated parameters within a mathematical model that describes a production of the target signal over the time period; and
minimizing a measure of a difference between outputs of the mathematical model and the first measurement;
estimating parameter values for a second mathematical model that describes cell culture density over time by minimizing a measure of a difference between an output of the second mathematical model and the second measurement; and
based on the estimated parameters and the estimated parameter values, identifying the intrinsic property.