Abstract l-Lysine has been manufactured using Corynebacterium glutamicum for more than
40 years. Nowadays production exceeds 600,000 tons per year. Based on conventionally …

The high-level production of functional proteins in E. coli is a very extense field of research
in biotechnology. A number of important aspects to be considered in the initial design of an …

PathBLAST is a network alignment and search tool for comparing protein interaction
networks across species to identify protein pathways and complexes that have been …

The aim of this book is to introduce the reader to some of the best techniques for data mining
in bioinformatics in the hope that the reader will build on them to make new discoveries on …

Comparative analysis of metabolic pathways in different genomes can give insights into the
understanding of evolutionary and organizational relationships among species. This type of …

The metabolic network is both a network of chemical reactions and a network of enzymes
that catalyze reactions. Toward better understanding of this duality in the evolution of the …

Motivation: The application of microarray chip technology has led to an explosion of data
concerning the expression levels of the genes in an organism under a plethora of …

Noted biologist and philosopher Sahotra Sarkar exposes the frauds and fallacies of
Intelligent Design Theory, and its claim to be'good science'. A scientific and philosophical …

Unlike traditional biological research that focuses on a small set of components, systems
biology studies the complex interactions among a large number of genes, proteins, and …

In many of the chemical reactions in living cells, enzymes act as catalysts in the conversion
of certain compounds (substrates) into other compounds (products). Comparative analyses …