OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Synthetic Biology is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Construction of a syntrophic Pseudomonas putida consortium with reciprocal substrate processing	29
Synthetic biology regulation in Europe: containment, release and beyond	24
In vitro transcription-based biosensing of glycolate for prototyping of a complex enzyme cascade	19
Development of synthetic biotics as treatment for human diseases	16
basicsynbio and the BASIC SEVA collection: software and vectors for an established DNA assembly method	15
Utilizing a cell-free protein synthesis platform for the biosynthesis of a natural product, caffeine	11
Traditional protocols and optimization methods lead to absent expression in a mycoplasma cell-free gene expression platform	10
An injectable CRISPR therapy instructs B cells to produce anti-HIV antibodies	10
An artificial protein translation language makes bacteria resistant to viruses	10
A new Editor-in-chief for Synthetic Biology	10
A mathematical model of cell-free transcription-translation with plasmid crosstalk	9
Construction of a mini-RNA replicon inEscherichia coli	8
Minimal shuttle vectors for Saccharomyces cerevisiae	8
A toolkit for enhanced reproducibility of RNASeq analysis for synthetic biologists	8
In- & Out-Cloning: plasmid toolboxes for scarless transcription unit and modular Golden Gate acceptor plasmid assembly	8
Development of an expression-tunable multiple protein synthesis system in cell-free reactions using T7-promoter-variant series	8
Writing the dark matter of the human genome into mice to better replicate human disease	7
Variability in cell-free expression reactions can impact qualitative genetic circuit characterization	7
GoldenBraid2.0 E. coli: a comprehensive and characterized toolkit for enterics	7
Automated cell segmentation for reproducibility in bioimage analysis	7
Functional Synthetic Biology	6
Fighting fire with fire: engineering a microbe into a therapeutic defense against drug-resistant biofilms	6
Rewiring cell-free metabolic flux inE. colilysates using a block—push—pull approach	6