Prof. Dr. Yingfeng An
Section Collection Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the advancement of technologies such as computers, bio-informatics, gene synthesis, the technological bottleneck of bioengineering industrialization can be broken through. The close interaction between system science and biotechnology, system biology and synthetic biology will also lead to the rapid shortening of the distance from basic research of system biotechnology to application and development. In this process, the importance of synthetic biology is increasingly apparent. Synthetic biology is the design and construction of new biological entities, such as enzymes, genetic circuits, and cells, or the redesign of existing biological systems. It builds on the advances in molecular, cell, and systems biology and seeks to transform biology in the same way that synthesis transformed chemistry and integrated circuit design transformed computing. The element that distinguishes synthetic biology from traditional molecular and cellular biology is the focus on the design and construction of core components that can be modeled, understood, and tuned to meet specific performance criteria and the assembly of these smaller parts and devices into larger integrated systems that solve specific biotechnology problems.
This journal highlights exciting practical applications of synthetic biology such as microbial production of bio-fuels and drugs, artificial cells, synthetic viruses, artificial photosynthesis, computational design, cell-free synthetic biology and engineering synthetic ecosystems. Research articles and reviews in this area of study are welcome.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Yingfeng An
Section Editor