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Overview and Future Directions

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Metabolic Pathway Engineering

Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology ((MIMB,volume 2096))

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Modern microbial and enzyme engineering and their advancement are increasingly dependent on the marriage of a wide range of sophisticated technologies. For students entering the field of biotechnology, the outlook is indeed daunting. Expertise at levels beyond that of simple familiarity will be needed to conduct competitive research. It goes without saying that to be competitive, all new researchers in this field will need basic preparation in molecular biology, biochemistry, and genetics. Further, experience working with concepts and experimental tools in enzyme biochemistry and kinetics, gene editing, computational metabolic pathway modeling, experimental pathway flux analysis, and computational clustering tools to process complex data sets will be vital for success. We speculate that most biotechnology researchers in early career at this time will build teams of collaborators to address these disparate science fields rather than attempt to become experts in one lab.

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Funding was provided by the BioEnergy Science Center (BESC) and the Center for Bioenergy Innovation (CBI), from the U.S. Department of Energy Bioenergy Research Centers supported by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research in the DOE Office of Science. This work was authored in part by Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, the Manager and Operator of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under Contract No. DE-AC36-08GO28308. The views expressed in the article do not necessarily represent the views of the DOE or the U.S. Government. The U.S. Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the U.S. Government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this work, or allow others to do so, for U.S. Government purposes.

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Bomble, Y.J., Himmel, M.E. (2020). Overview and Future Directions. In: Himmel, M., Bomble, Y. (eds) Metabolic Pathway Engineering. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2096. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0195-2_1

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