Biotechnology for Chemical Production: Challenges and Opportunities

Biotechnology offers a new sustainable approach to manufacturing chemicals, enabling the replacement of petroleum-based raw materials with renewable biobased feedstocks, thereby reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, toxic byproducts, and the safety risks associated with traditional petrochemical...

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Published in:Trends in biotechnology (Regular ed.) 2016-03, Vol.34 (3), p.187-190
Main Authors: Burk, Mark J, Van Dien, Stephen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Binding sites
Bioengineering
Biofuels
Biotechnology
Capital costs
Carbon dioxide
Chemical industry
Chemicals
Commercialization
Fermentation
Gene expression
Genomes
Glycerol
Greenhouse gases
Internal Medicine
Manufacturing
Metabolic Engineering
Metabolism
Microorganisms
Molecular biology
Organic Chemicals
Petrochemicals
Proteomics
Raw materials
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Summary:Biotechnology offers a new sustainable approach to manufacturing chemicals, enabling the replacement of petroleum-based raw materials with renewable biobased feedstocks, thereby reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, toxic byproducts, and the safety risks associated with traditional petrochemical processing. Development of such bioprocesses is enabled by recent advances in genomics, molecular biology, and systems biology, and will continue to accelerate as access to these tools becomes faster and cheaper.
ISSN:0167-7799
1879-3096
DOI:10.1016/j.tibtech.2015.10.007