Designing biological systems: Systems Engineering meets Synthetic Biology

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-29

  Rollié, Sascha ^a,b   Mangold, Michael ^a   Sundmacher, Kai ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS OF COMPLEX TECHNICAL SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomolecular Engineering; Biosystems Engineering; Cell Biology; Process synthesis; Synthetic Biology; Systems Biology

Indexed keywords

BIO-SYSTEMS; BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING; CELL BIOLOGY; PROCESS SYNTHESIS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

CYTOLOGY; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS);

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 83955163721     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2011.10.068     Document Type: Review

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