Directed evolution: an evolving and enabling synthetic biology tool.
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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.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Current opinion in chemical biology
دوره 16 3-4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2012