Are we doing synthetic biology?

Systems and Synthetic Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 79-83

  Porcar, Manuel ^a,b   Peretó, Juli ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Artificial life; Metabolic engineering; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871405187     PISSN: 18725325     EISSN: 18725333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11693-012-9101-3     Document Type: Article

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