Abstract
Synthetic biology is an interdisciplinary field that takes top-down approaches to understand and engineer biological systems through design-build-test cycles. A number of advances in this relatively young field have greatly accelerated such engineering cycles. Specifically, various innovative tools were developed for in silico biosystems design, DNA de novo synthesis and assembly, construct verification, as well as metabolite analysis, which have laid a solid foundation for building biological foundries for rapid prototyping of improved or novel biosystems. This review summarizes the state-of-the-art technologies for synthetic biology and discusses the challenges to establish such biological foundries.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 658-665 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Science China Life Sciences |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue number | 7 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 24 2015 |
Keywords
- DNA assembly
- DNA sequencing
- automation
- biofabrication
- biosystems design
- metabolic engineering
- metabolite analysis
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)
- Environmental Science(all)
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all)