title: [Metabolic engineering: an evolving technology for strain improvement].
abstract: The background for developing metabolic engineering was reviewed, followed by a discussion on analyzing the driving force for developing metabolic engineering. Twelve papers published in this special section were briefly introduced with the aim to stimulate further developments in this fast evolving field.
authors: Institute ofMicrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China. yli@im.ac.cn
authors: Yin
authors: Y
authors: Li
mesh_terms: D001709:Biotechnology / Q000639:trends*; D005818:Genetic Engineering / Q000379:methods*; D007218:Industrial Microbiology / Q000379:methods*; D008660:Metabolism