The second wave of synthetic biology: From modules to systems

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 410-422

  Purnick, Priscilla E M ^a   Weiss, Ron ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOENGINEERING; BIOMEDICINE; BIOREMEDIATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; YEAST;

BACTERIA; BIOLOGY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELL LINE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENGINEERING; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENOME; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 66249088017     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm2698     Document Type: Review

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