Efficient fermentation of hemicellulosic sugars is critical for the bioconversion of
lignocellulosics to ethanol. Efficient sugar uptake through the heterologous expression of …

The increasing oil price and environmental concerns caused by the use of fossil fuel have
renewed our interest in utilizing biomass as a sustainable resource for the production of …

The assembly of large recombinant DNA encoding a whole biochemical pathway or genome
represents a significant challenge. Here, we report a new method, DNA assembler, which …

The advent of rapid complete genome sequencing, and the potential to capture this
information in genome-scale metabolic models, provide the possibility of comprehensively …

Background: Mycobacterium tuberculosis continues to be a major pathogen in the third
world, killing almost 2 million people a year by the most recent estimates. Even in …

In the past decade, computational methods have been shown to be well suited to unraveling
the complex web of metabolic reactions in biological systems. Methods based on flux …

Evaluating a wealth of quantitative data, Biofuels: Biotechnology, Chemistry, and
Sustainable Development discusses different types of biofuels, the science behind their …

Dynamic flux balance analysis (DFBA) provides a platform for detailed design, control and
optimization of biochemical process technologies. It is a promising modeling framework that …

Stoichiometric analysis of metabolic networks allows the calculation of possible metabolic
flux distributions in the absence of kinetic data. In order to predict which of the possible …

Sequential uptake of pentose and hexose sugars that compose lignocellulosic biomass
limits the ability of pure microbial cultures to efficiently produce value‐added bioproducts. In …