Metabolic systems engineering combines the tools and approaches of
systems biology, synthetic biology, and evolutionary engineering. This
book reviews studies on metabolism, from the earliest work of Lavoisier
and Buchner to current cutting-edge research in metabolic systems
engineering.
This technology has been used in bioengineering applications to create
high-performing microbes and plants that produce important chemicals,
pharmaceuticals, crops, and other natural products. Current applications
include optimizing metabolic pathways to enhance degradation of biomass
for biofuel production and accelerated processing of environmental waste
products and contaminants. The book includes examples to illustrate the
applications of this technology in the optimization of metabolic
pathways to create robust industrial strains as well as in the
engineering of biological processes involving health and diseases of
humans, animals, and plants.
Written by a seasoned computational biologist with many years of
experience in genomics, bioinformatics, and systems biology, this book
will appeal to anyone interested in metabolic systems analysis and
metabolic pathway engineering.