On the road to synthetic life: The minimal cell and genome-scale engineering

Critical Reviews in Biotechnology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 416-423

  Juhas, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chassis; essential gene; genome assembly; high throughput genome engineering; robust cell; synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; BIOLOGY; CELLS; CHASSIS; CYTOLOGY; GENES; THROUGHPUT;

BIO-MANUFACTURING; ENERGY PRODUCTIONS; ENGINEERING PRINCIPLES; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENOME ASSEMBLY; GENOME ENGINEERING; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

CELL ENGINEERING;

ARTIFICIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENOME; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENERGY YIELD; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME; GENOME SCALE ENGINEERING; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; LOXP SITE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SYNTHESIS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; BIOTECHNOLOGY;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84962571068     PISSN: 07388551     EISSN: 15497801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/07388551.2014.989423     Document Type: Review

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