Enabling technologies in synthetic biology--DNA synthesis, assembly and editing.

Author: Shiyuan LI ¹ ; Guoping ZHAO ¹ ; Jin WANG ¹
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1. Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China.
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: DNA assembly; enabling technology; gene synthesis; genome editing; synthetic biology
From: Chinese Journal of Biotechnology 2017;33(3):343-360
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Synthetic biology is an emerging discipline, which aims at creating artificial lives or remolding the present organisms to generate new features. To achieve these goals, synthetic biologists need to design and synthesize new genes, pathways, modules or even whole genomes. As these enabling technologies (e.g. gene synthesis, DNA assembly and genome editing) are very important for the progress of synthetic biology, we will focus on the development of these technologies in this review.