Systems biology as a foundation for genome-scale synthetic biology

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 488-492

  Barrett, Christian L ^a   Kim, Tae Yong ^b   Kim, Hyun Uk ^b   Palsson, Bernhard Ø ^a   Lee, Sang Yup ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b BioProcess Engineering Research Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

CELL CULTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; GENES;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

ALGORITHM; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING ASSAY; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SIMULATION;

BIOLOGY; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOFTWARE; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 33749135705     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2006.08.001     Document Type: Review

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