The Effect of Compositional Context on Synthetic Gene Net-works

1 Control & Dynamical Systems, Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125; 2 Institute for Medical Engineering & Science, Department of Biological Engineering, and Synthetic Biology Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139; 3 Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125; 4 Department of Bioengineering, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94709; 5 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Synthetic Biology Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139; 6 Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; 7 Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, MA 02115; 8 Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02115; 9 Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142;