Design in Synthetic Biology
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemical Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 August 2018) | Viewed by 51258
Special Issue Editors
Interests: synthetic biology; chemical biology; bioorganic chemistry; protein engineering; unnatural amino acid; genetic code; directed evolution; metabolic engineering
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As a young multidisciplinary research field, Synthetic Biology has been enjoying rapid growth over recent years. It combines fundamental principles of science and engineering in order to achieve a precision design and an efficient construction of useful biological functions and systems. Synthetic Biology attracts interests from the fields of Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Material Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, etc. Applications of Synthetic Biology serve a very broad spectrum of goals, ranging from making basic scientific discoveries to solving practical problems, such as producing drugs and bio-based chemicals/fuels, improving traits of crops, and optimizing gene therapy.
The present Special Issue is aimed at bringing the most recent and exciting advances in Synthetic Biology to its audience. It covers, but is not limited to, new methods and novel applications in genetic circuit design, genetic code engineering, genome editing, DNA/genome synthesis, natural product discover/synthesis, novel pathway design/construction, metabolic engineering, biosensing, protein design/engineering, and mathematical modelling.
As Guest Editors, we cordially invite researchers to submit their recent advances in the field to this Special Issue of Molecules.
With best regards,
Dr. Jiantao Guo
Dr. Wei Niu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Synthetic Biology
- Chemical Biology
- Natural Product Biosynthesis
- Protein Engineering
- Genetic Code
- Metabolic Engineering
- Biocatalysis
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