Knowledge-making distinctions in synthetic biology

BioEssays

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 57-65

  O'Malley, Maureen A ^a   Powell, Alexander ^a   Davies, Jonathan F ^a   Calvert, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOENGINEERING; BIOINFORMATICS; DNA SYNTHESIS; EPISTEMOLOGY; GENE INSERTION; HEREDITY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; REVIEW; VIRUS GENOME;

ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DECISION MAKING; GENES, SYNTHETIC; GENOME; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROTEINS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 38049061205     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.20664     Document Type: Review

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