Piecing together a puzzle: An exposition of synthetic biology

EMBO Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 428-432

  Deplazes, Anna ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BIOENGINEERING; BIOREMEDIATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VACUOLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER MODEL; CYTOLOGY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; DRUG RESEARCH; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STANDARDIZATION; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM;

BIOLOGY; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; GENOMICS;

EID: 65549140237     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2009.76     Document Type: Article

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