Confidence, tolerance, and allowance in biological engineering: The nuts and bolts of living things

BioEssays

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 95-102

  Porcar, Manuel ^a,b   Danchin, Antoine ^c   de Lorenzo, Víctor ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^d CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Allowance; Standardization; Synthetic biology; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DNA SEQUENCE; GRAVITY; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; STANDARDIZATION; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; ADAPTATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; STANDARD;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOENGINEERING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REFERENCE STANDARDS;

EID: 84919459290     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201400091     Document Type: Article

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