Goethe's dream: Challenges and opportunities for synthetic biology

EMBO Reports

Volumn 10, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Moya, Andrés ^a   Krasnogor, Natalio ^b   Peretó, Juli ^a   Latorre, Amparo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RESEARCH; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER MODEL; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; HISTORY; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIOTECHNOLOGY; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 68049105408     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2009.120     Document Type: Article

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