Synthetic approaches to understanding biological constraints

Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 323-328

  Velenich, Andrea ^a   Gore, Jeff ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; BIOLOGICAL CONSTRAINT; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; METABOLIC PARAMETERS; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MICROBIOLOGY; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84865294751     PISSN: 13675931     EISSN: 18790402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2012.05.199     Document Type: Review

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