Synthetic Biology Tools and Applications

Introduction
Section I. Synthesis and engineering tools in synthetic biology
Chapter 1. DNA synthesis
Chapter 2. Protein engineering
Chapter 3. Pathway engineering
Chapter 4. Biological standardization

Section II. Computational and theoretical tools in synthetic biology
Chapter 5. Biocomplexity issues in synthetic biology
Chapter 6. Computational protein design
Chapter 7. Computer-Aided Design in Synthetic Biology
Chapter 8. Computational tools for strain design

Sections III. Applications in synthetic biology
Chapter 9. Pathway/network level: design and applications of therapeutic genetic circuits
Chapter 10. Pathway/network level: production of drugs
Chapter 11. Pathway/network level: synthesis of new fuels
Chapter 12. Organism level: genome assembly
Chapter 13. Multi-cell level: synthetic prey-predator system

Section IV. Future prospects
Chapter 14. Design of artificial cells
Chapter 15. Cell-free synthetic biology
Chapter 16. Artificial photosynthesis
Chapter 17. Engineering synthetic ecosystems