Taming the Beast of Biology: Synthetic Biology and Biological Systems Engineering
Despite the availability of a variety of ' -omics ' technologies to support the system-wide analysis of industrially relevant microorganisms, the manipulation of strains towards an economically relevant goal remains a challenge. Remarkably, our ability to catalogue the participants in and...
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doaj-d6a4f416245f4d298cc629de7f0bf4242020-11-25T02:58:17ZdeuSwiss Chemical SocietyCHIMIA0009-42932673-24242020-05-0174540240610.2533/chimia.2020.402Taming the Beast of Biology: Synthetic Biology and Biological Systems EngineeringSven Panke0Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, Mattenstrasse 26, Zurich, SwitzerlandDespite the availability of a variety of ' -omics ' technologies to support the system-wide analysis of industrially relevant microorganisms, the manipulation of strains towards an economically relevant goal remains a challenge. Remarkably, our ability to catalogue the participants in and model ever more comprehensive aspects of a microorganism's physiology is now complemented by technologies that permanently expand the scope of engineering interventions that can be imagined. In fact, genome-wide editing and re-synthesis of microbial and even eukaryotic chromosomes have become widely applied methods. At the heart of this emerging system-wide engineering approach, often labelled ' Synthetic Biology ' , is the continuous improvement of large-scale DNA synthesis, which is put to two-fold use: (i) starting ever more ambitious efforts to re-write existing and coding novel molecular systems, and (ii) designing and constructing increasingly sophisticated library technologies, which has led to a renaissance of directed evolution in strain engineering. Here, we briefly review some of the critical concepts and technological stepping-stones of Synthetic Biology on its way to becoming a mature industrial technology.https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/scs/chimia/2020/00000074/00000005/art00014dna synthesisorthogonal operating systemssynthetic biologysystems assembly |
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Taming the Beast of Biology: Synthetic Biology and Biological Systems Engineering |
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Taming the Beast of Biology: Synthetic Biology and Biological Systems Engineering |
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Taming the Beast of Biology: Synthetic Biology and Biological Systems Engineering |
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Taming the Beast of Biology: Synthetic Biology and Biological Systems Engineering |
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Taming the Beast of Biology: Synthetic Biology and Biological Systems Engineering |
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taming the beast of biology: synthetic biology and biological systems engineering |
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Despite the availability of a variety of ' -omics ' technologies to support the system-wide analysis of industrially relevant microorganisms, the manipulation of strains towards an economically relevant goal remains a challenge. Remarkably, our ability to catalogue the participants in and model ever more comprehensive aspects of a microorganism's physiology is now complemented by technologies that permanently expand the scope of engineering interventions that can be imagined. In fact, genome-wide editing and re-synthesis of microbial and even eukaryotic chromosomes have become widely applied methods. At the heart of this emerging system-wide engineering approach, often labelled ' Synthetic Biology ' , is the continuous improvement of large-scale DNA synthesis, which is put to two-fold use: (i) starting ever more ambitious efforts to re-write existing and coding novel molecular systems, and (ii) designing and constructing increasingly sophisticated library technologies, which has led to a renaissance of directed evolution in strain engineering. Here, we briefly review some of the critical concepts and technological stepping-stones of Synthetic Biology on its way to becoming a mature industrial technology. |
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