| Literature DB >> 22673064 |
Ryan E Cobb1, Tong Si, Huimin Zhao.
Abstract
Synthetic biology, with its goal of designing biological entities for wide-ranging purposes, remains a field of intensive research interest. However, the vast complexity of biological systems has heretofore rendered rational design prohibitively difficult. As a result, directed evolution remains a valuable tool for synthetic biology, enabling the identification of desired functionalities from large libraries of variants. This review highlights the most recent advances in the use of directed evolution in synthetic biology, focusing on new techniques and applications at the pathway and genome scale.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22673064 PMCID: PMC3424333 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2012.05.186
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Opin Chem Biol ISSN: 1367-5931 Impact factor: 8.822