Synthetic Biology: challenges ahead

摘要

This expanding scientific discipline is proving extremely popular and is attracting engineering and system design experts to the field of Biology. As Bioinformatics and Computational Biology will be essential components of new technical and scientific developments, it is vital to follow the discussion generated by the recent ESF Exploratory Workshop (October 13-16, 2005, Constructing and de-constructing Life, Magalia, Spain) and the 2005 report of the NEST High-Level Expert Group on Synthetic Biology: Applying Engineering to Biology http://www.eurosfaire.prd.frest/documents/pdf/NEST_ syntheticbiology_b5_eur21796_en.pdf)