Analytics for metabolic engineering

Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology

Volumn 3, Issue SEP, 2015, Pages

  Petzold, Christopher J ^a   Chan, Leanne Jade G ^a   Nhan, Melissa ^a   Adams, Paul D ^a,b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

High throughput screening; Metabolic engineering; Metabolomics; Microfluidics; Proteomics; RNA seq

Indexed keywords

ASSAYS; DECISION MAKING; DIGITAL STORAGE; METABOLISM; MICROFLUIDICS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULES; PROTEINS;

ECONOMICALLY VIABLE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; METABOLOMICS; PROTEOMICS; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; SCREENING TECHNOLOGY; SPECIFIC INFORMATION; STRAIN CONSTRUCTIONS;

METABOLIC ENGINEERING;

EID: 85013745565     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22964185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2015.00135     Document Type: Review

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