If you're interested in this, you may also be interested in BioBricks (https://biobricks.org/) and iGEM (https://igem.org/).
Can anything be made out of this?
I'm curious if there's overlap between this and P System: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_system
I sure hope this is a graduate-level course.
Highly relevant book: Modeling Life by Alan Garfinkel. Assumes only knowledge of algebra and teaches the foundational skills of differential equation modeling. Best book I bought this year.