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  title info:
    title: Stepping Stones to Synthetic Biology
  name:
    name part: Carrà, Sergio.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 212 p. 68 illus., 34 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book explores fascinating topics at the edge of life, guiding the reader all the way from the relation of life processes to the second law of thermodynamics and the abundance of complex organic compounds in the universe through to the latest advances in synthetic biology and metabolic engineering. The background to the book is the extraordinary scientific adventures that are being undertaken as progress is made toward the creation of an artificial cell and the control of life processes. This journey involves input from research areas as diverse as genetic engineering, physical chemistry, and information theory. Life is to be thought of not only as a chemical event but also as an information process, with the genome a repository of information gathered over time through evolution. Knowledge of the mechanisms affecting the increase in complexity associated with evolutionary paths is improving, and there appear to be analogies with the evolution of the technologies promoting the development of our society. The book will be of wide interest to students at all levels and to others with an interest in the subject.
  table of contents: 1 Devils, ratchets and molecular motors -- 2 Energy, entropy and information -- 3 A computer called Universe -- 4 Biomolecules and bioenergetics -- 5 What is life? -- 6 Information and complexity: a metaphor of natural systems and engineering -- 7 The path of evolution in nature and in technology. Digital evolution platform -- 8 Imitation of life: the cell in a silicon chip -- 9 Verum est factum: synthetic biology -- 10 Metabolic engineering: towards the post-oil era?.
  note: by Sergio Carrà.
  subject:
    topic: Biotechnology
  subject:
    topic: Bioinformatics
  subject:
    topic: Systems biology
  subject:
    topic: Biological systems
  subject:
    topic: Physical chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary biology
  subject:
    topic: Chemoinformatics
  subject:
    topic: Biotechnology
  subject:
    topic: Bioinformatics
  subject:
    topic: Systems Biology
  subject:
    topic: Physical Chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary Biology
  subject:
    topic: Computer Applications in Chemistry
  classification: TP248.13-248.65
  classification: 660.6
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      title: Springer eBooks
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      title: The Frontiers Collection
  identifier: 9783319954592
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95459-2
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    record creation date: 181010
    record change date: 20191025062048.0
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