Biological standards for the Knowledge-Based BioEconomy: What is at stake

New Biotechnology

Volumn 40, Issue , 2018, Pages 170-180

  de Lorenzo, Víctor ^a   Schmidt, Markus ^b  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b Biofaction KG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bioengineering; Fourth Industrial revolutionFourth industrial revolution; iGEM; KBBE; Orthogonalization; PoPs; Retroactivity; SBOL; Standards; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; COMPETITION; DNA SEQUENCES; FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; STANDARDS; SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

IGEM; INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONS; KBBE; ORTHOGONALIZATION; POPS; RETROACTIVITY; SBOL; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

BIOENGINEERING; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; BIOMEDICINE; BIOSAFETY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; INFORMATION STORAGE; KNOWLEDGE BASED BIOECONOMY; OMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMICS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; KNOWLEDGE BASE; STANDARDS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; KNOWLEDGE BASES; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 85019185749     PISSN: 18716784     EISSN: 18764347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nbt.2017.05.001     Document Type: Review

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