Bridging the gap between systems biology and synthetic biology

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue JUL, 2013, Pages

  Liu, Di ^a   Hoynes O'Connor, Allison ^a   Zhang, Fuzhong ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell factory; Metabolic engineering; Microbial engineering; Synthetic biology; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

BIOFUEL; GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

BIOINFORMATICS; CELL FUNCTION; ENGINEERING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENOMICS; METABOLOMICS; MICROORGANISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEOMICS; SHORT SURVEY; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

EID: 84885368652     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00211     Document Type: Short Survey

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