Getting Momentum: From Biocatalysis to Advanced Synthetic Biology

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 180-198

  Badenhorst, Christoffel P S ^a   Bornscheuer, Uwe T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

biocatalysis; broad mutational scanning; deep mutational scanning; high throughput screening; metabolic engineering; protein engineering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOCATALYSIS; BIOCATALYST; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENOMICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; MACHINE LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METAGENOMICS; METALLOENZYME ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PROCEDURES; TRENDS;

DNA; PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; BIOCATALYSIS; DNA; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; HUMANS; MACHINE LEARNING; MUTATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEINS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 85042458503     PISSN: 09680004     EISSN: 13624326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2018.01.003     Document Type: Review

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