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Actually, it's 7 papers co-published in Science simultaneously.

The others are:

Synthesis, debugging, and effects of synthetic chromosome consolidation: synVI and beyond: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6329/eaaf4831

“Perfect” designer chromosome V and behavior of a ring derivative: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6329/eaaf4704

Deep functional analysis of synII, a 770-kilobase synthetic yeast chromosome: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6329/eaaf4791

Bug mapping and fitness testing of chemically synthesized chromosome X: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6329/eaaf4706

Engineering the ribosomal DNA in a megabase synthetic chromosome: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6329/eaaf3981

3D organization of synthetic and scrambled chromosomes: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6329/eaaf4597

Along with an introduction: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6329/1038

and perspective: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6329/1024



Are there any good resources to start in this field for non-biology majors? It seems they have now full end-to-end simulation so one can program yeast and even test it out at some extent with nothing but just a computer.


They don't have that at all. This was a Herculean effort over 5 years with very few actual changes to the natural genome. I don't mean to make it seem not impressive (it is ambitious and impressive); it's that we are so far away from an end to end simulation of anything even orders of magnitude simpler than yeast.


Honestly, an introductory biology textbook is your best bet. But other response is correct: we can't even simulate a single protein well, much less an entire organism.




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