This is the publication list of the BioMIP group while affiliated with the Ruhr Universität (since April 2004). Also available is the earlier publication list of John S. McCaskill. A ResearchID publication list for McCaskill is also available, currently not including patent applications (9).
2015
Tangen, U., Minero, G.A.S., Sharma, A. Wagler, P.F., Cohen, R., Raz, O., Marx, T., ben Yehezkel T., and McCaskill, J.S. "DNA-library assembly programmed by on-demand nanoliter droplets from a custom microfluidic chip" Biomicrofluidics, 9(4):044103 (2015) . DOI: 10.1063/1.4926616
Wagler, P.F., Minero, G.A.S., Tangen, U., de Vries, J. W., Prusty, D. , Kwak, M. Herrmann, A., and McCaskill, J. S. "Sequence-specific nucleic acid mobility using a reversible block copolymer gel matrix and DNA amphiphiles (lipid-DNA) in capillary and microfluidic electrophoretic separations" Electrophoresis, accepted, (2015), DOI: 10.1002/elps.201400489
Minero, G.A.S. , Wagler, P.F. , Oughli, A.A. and McCaskill, J.S. "Electronic pH switching of DNA triplex reactions" RSC Advances, 5 (35), 27313-27325, (2015). DOI:10.1039/C5RA02628H
Freage, L., Trifonov, A., Tel-Vered, R., Golub, E., Wang, F., McCaskill, J. S., & Willner, I. (2015). Addressing, amplifying and switching DNAzyme functions by electrochemically-triggered release of metal ions. Chemical Science, 6(6), 3544-3549. DOI: 10.1039/C5SC00744E
Tangen, U., Sharma, A., Wagler, P.F., and McCaskill, J. S. “On demand nanoliter-scale microfluidic droplet dispensing and mixing using a passive microfluidic device" Biomicrofluidics, 9, 014119 (2015). http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25759752
Wagler, P.F. , Tangen, U., Ott, J., and McCaskill, J.S. "General-Purpose, Parallel and Reversible Microfluidic Interconnects" IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology, 2015, 5(3), 291-300. DOI:10.1109/TCPMT.2015.2395815
Wills, P., Nieselt, K., & McCaskill, J. S. (2015). "Emergence of Coding and its Specificity as a Physico-Informatic Problem." Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, 45(1-2), 249-255. DOI: 10.1007/s11084-015-9434-5
Sharma, A., & McCaskill, J. S. (2015). Autonomous lablet locomotion and active docking by sensomotory electroosmotic drive. Paper presented at the European Conference on Articial Life, York. DOI: 10.7551/978-0-262-33027-5-ch081
(list for 2015 not yet completed)
Other publications
McCaskill, J.S., Maeke, T., Sharma, A., Wagler, P.F., Funke, D., Mayr, P. and Oehm, J. “MICREAgents: MIcroscopic Chemically Reactive Electronic Agents” 15th European Conference on Artificial Life, York (2015). Poster.
Minero, G.A.S. Dissertation. Ruhr Universität Bochum. PhD Thesis advisor McCaskill, J.S.
see also published EU Project Deliverables
2014
Patzke, V., McCaskill, J.S., v. Kiedrowski, G., "DNA with 3'-5'-Disulfide-links: Rapid chemical ligation via isosteric replacement” Angewandte Chemie - International Edition 53(16), 4222-4226 (2014). DOI: 10.1002/anie.201310644
McCaskill, J. S., Amos, M., Dittrich, P., Rasmussen S. et.al. . (2014). A Roadmap for Chemical and Biological Information Technology: ChemBioIT. 1-164. Retrieved from http://www.cobra-project-eu website: http://www.cobra-project-eu/uploads/2/0/8/9/20895162/cobra_d2.3_draft_roadmap.pdf.
Other publications
Tangen, U., Minero, G.K.A., Sharma, A., Maeke, T., Wagler, P.F., McCaskill, J. S. , "Programmable DNA recombinant synthesis in nl scale microfluidics.” External Review Meeting, RUB, Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry (2014) CADMAD Poster.
Tangen, U., "How is new information being created?" MPI Winterseminar on 'Biophysical Chemistry', Klosters, Switzerland (2014). MICREAgents Poster.
2013
Bedau, M.A., McCaskill, J.S., Packard, N.H., Parke, E., Rasmussen, S. , “Introduction to recent developments in Living Technology” 19, 291-293 (2014). DOI: 10.1162/ARTL_e_00121
Other publications
Tangen, U., Sharma, A., Maeke, T., Wagler, P., McCaskill, J.S. "On separation in microfluidic structures." MPI Winterseminar on 'Biophysical Chemistry', Klosters, Switzerland. (2013) CADMAD Project Poster
Sharma, A., Minero, G.K.A., McCaskill, J.S. "Electronically controlled fast DNA switches in microfluidic devices.” 4th Junges Chemie Symposium, MPI Mülheim, (2013) Poster.
Oehm, J. & AIS group, McCaskill,J.S., & BioMIP group, Mayr, P. & IS group ”MICREAGents Electronic Development” RUB Engineering Professorium: 'Alles Ing’ Bochum (2013) Poster.
McCaskill, J.S., Wagler, P., Minero, G.K.A., Tangen, U., Sharma, A., Maeke, T. "Programming Chemistry with Addressable Chemtainers”, External Review Meeting. RUB Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry (2013) Poster.
2012
Wagler, P., Tangen, U., Maeke,T., McCaskill, J. S. "Field programmable chemistry: Integrated chemical and electronic processing of informational molecules towards electronic chemical cells.” Biosystems 109, 2-17, (2012). DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2012.01.005
McCaskill, J.S. et.al. "Microscale Chemically Reactive Electronic Agents” International Journal of Unconventional Computation, 8, 288-299. (2012). link
Other publications
Sharma, A., Maeke, T., Wagler P., and McCaskill, J.S. "Conventional LCoS chips for future biochemical applications: Experiments and theory." 8th international meeting on electrowetting, 2012 (2012). Poster.
Minero, G.K.A., Wagler, P.F., and McCaskill, J. S. "Electronically switchable DNA hybridization via triplex interactions." 18th International Conference on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming, DNA18 (2012). Poster.
Birch, H., McCaskill, J.S., "Life, but not as we know it." Chemistry World, an interview with John McCaskill (2012) link
2011
Amos, M., Dittrich, P., McCaskill, J., & Rasmussen, S. (2011). Biological and Chemical Information Technologies. Proceedings of the 2nd European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition 2011 (Fet 11), 7, 56-60. DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2011.12.019
Other publications
Minero, G. K.A., and McCaskill, J. S. "Monitoring and fast analysis of triplex formation" JCS-Ruhr 2011 Book of Abstracts 2011 8, 36 (2011) . MATCHIT Poster.
Minero, G. K.A., "Murine DNA methyltransferase Dnmt3a: probing of DNA-enzyme interactions with benzo[a]pyrene-containing DNA by fluorescence." DECHEMA Biotransformations 2011, Book of Abstracts (2011) Poster.
2010
Bedau, M.A., McCaskill, J.S., Packard, N.H., Rasmussen, S. ”Living technology: Exploiting life's principles in technology”, Artificial Life (2010), vol 16(1) , 89-97. DOI: 10.1162/artl.2009.16.1.16103
McCaskill, J.S. ”Living technology: 5 Questions” in Bedau, M.A. et al (eds.) ”Living technology: 5 Questions”, pp 111-121 (2010) Automatic Press. ISBN-10 89-92130-29-1.
2009
Füchslin, R.M., Maeke, T., McCaskill, J.S. “Spatially resolved simulation of membrane reactions and dynamics: Multipolar reaction DPD”, Eur. Phys. J.E. 29, 413-448 (2009), DOI
2008
McCaskill, J.S. in: “Protocells: Bridging nonliving and living matter”, ed. by S. Rasmussen et al., MIT Press Cambridge, Mass., London, England (2008) pp. 253-295. Evolutionary microfluidic complementation toward artificial cells. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid;=11630
Chemnitz, S., Tangen, U., Wagler, P. F., Maeke, T., McCaskill, J. S., Electronically programmable membranes for improved biomolecule handling in micro-compartments on-chip, Chemical Engineering Journal 135S, (2008) 276-9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2007.07.061
Rasmussen, S., Bedau, M.A., McCaskill, J.S. , Packard, N. in “Protocells: Bridging nonliving and living matter”, ed. by S. Rasmussen et al., MIT Press Cambridge, Mass., London, England (2008) pp. 71-101. A roadmap to protocells.
McCaskill JS, Packard NH, Rasmussen S, von Kiedrowski G, Poli I, Nielsen P, Lindgren K, Solé R, Pfeifer R, Tamulis A, Mouritsen O, Eggenberger P, McMullin B, Bedau MA "The PACE Report" (2008)
http://www.istpace.org/Web_Final_Report/the_pace_report/index.html
Other publications
2007
McCaskill, J., Packard, N. H., Rasmussen, S., Bedau, M. A., Evolutionary self-organization in complex fluids, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. ser. B 362, (2007) 1763-79. http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/content/y2k482233q3x8218/fulltext.pdf
Other publications
2006
Füchslin, R., Maeke, T., Tangen, U., McCaskill, J. S., Evolving inductive generalization via genetic self-assembly, Advances in Complex Systems 9, (2006) 1-29.
Tangen, U. Wagler, P. F., Chemnitz, S., Goranovic, G., Maeke, T., McCaskill, J. S., An electronically controlled microfluidics approach towards artificial cells., CompPlexUs 3, (2006) 48-57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000094187 http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/produkte.asp?doi=10.1159/000094187
Chemnitz, S., Tangen, U., Wagler, P. F., Maeke, T., McCaskill, J. S., Electronically programmable membranes for improved biomolecule handling in micro-compartments on-chip paper presented at the 9th International Conference on Microreaction Technology (IMRET 9) 2006.
Other publications
Chemnitz, S., Ph.D., Univ. Saarland, Advisors: McCaskill, J. S., Seidel, H. (2006) "Hybrid microfludic systems as a programmable environment to study biochemical model reactions."
2005
Tangen, U., Wagler, P.F., Chemnitz, S, Goranovic, G, Maeke, T., McCaskill, J. S., An electronically controlled microfluidics approach towards artificial cells paper presented at the European Conference on Complex Systems 2005. http://complexite.free.fr/ECCS05/proceedingsECCS05.pdf
McCaskill, J. S., Ehses, S. et al., Stationary chemical gradient reactors in the search for artificial cells paper presented at the MicroTas 2005, Boston 2005.
P.F. Wagler, U. Tangen, M. Heymann, T. Maeke, S. Chemnitz, M. Jünger, T. Palutke, J.S. McCaskill., Dynamical multiphase structures in the microsystem approach to artificial cells. MicroTas 2005 (Boston), 2005.
Wagler, P., Tangen, U, Maeke, T, Chemnitz, S, Jünger, M and McCaskill, J.S., Molecular systems on-chip (msoc) - steps forward for programmable biosystems paper presented at the SPIE: Smart Structures and Materials 2004 (San Diego, CA, USA) 2005.
Ehses, S., Ackermann, J., McCaskill, J. S., Optimization and design of oligonucleotide setup for strand displacement amplification, J Biochem Biophys Methods 63, (Jun 30, 2005) 170-86. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db;=PubMed&dopt;=Citation&list;_uids=15975661
Ehses, S., Ph. D. Thesis, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Advisors: McCaskill, J. S., Kiedrowski, G. v. (2005) "Isothermal in vitro selection and amplification to investigate evolution processes."
Rücker, T., Ph.D. Thesis, University of Bonn, Advisors: McCaskill, J. S., Famulok, M. (2005). "Biomolecular information processing in networked microflow reactors."
2004 (RUB)
Chemnitz, S., M. Jünger, et al. (2004). Hybrid BioModules Based on Printed Circuit Board Technology. Chemische und biologische Mikrolabortechnik, Ilmenau, Germany.
Füchslin, R. M., S. Altmeyer, McCaskill, JS (2004). "Evolutionary stabilization of generous replicases by complex formation." Europ. Phys J. 38(1): 103-110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2004-00105-2
Schäfer, H., S. Chemnitz, et al. (2004). A New Technology for an Application Specific Lab-on-Microchip. The Nano-Micro Interface. H. J. Fecht and M. Werner. Weinheim, Wiley: 119-137. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/3527604111.ch10
Van Noort, D. and McCaskill, JS. (2004). "Flows in micro fluidic networks: From theory to experiment." Natural Computing 3(4): 395. http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/s11047-004-2667-2
Wagler, PF., Tangen, U., Maeke, T., Chemnitz, S., Jünger, M., McCaskill, JS (2004). Molecular systems on-chip (MSoC) - steps forward for programmable biosystems. SPIE: Smart Structures and Materials 2004, San Diego, CA, USA, Proceedings of SPIE. Vol 5389 - Smart Structures and Materials 2004: Smart Electronics, MEMS, BioMEMS, and Nanotechnology, 298:305
http://spiedigitallibrary.org/dbt/dbt.jsp?KEY=PSISDG&Volume=5389&Issue=1&bproc=symp&scode=SS04
Wagler, PF., Tangen, U., Maeke, T., Chemnitz, S., Jünger, M., McCaskill, JS (2004). Molecular Systems on a chip: Steps forward for programmable Biosystems. 2nd Workshop Proceedings: Chemische und biologische Mikrolabortechnik, Ilmenau.