title: Grand challenge commentary: Transforming biosynthesis into an information science.
abstract: Engineering biosynthetic pathways to natural products is a challenging endeavor that promises to provide new therapeutics and tools to manipulate biology. Information-guided design strategies and tools could unlock the creativity of a wide spectrum of scientists and engineers by decoupling expertise from implementation.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation, Imperial College London, London, UK. t.bayer@imperial.ac.uk
authors.forename: Travis S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Bayer
mesh_terms: D053898:Biosynthetic Pathways / Q000502:physiology*; D019295:Computational Biology; D003198:Computer Simulation; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D015195:Drug Design; D005818:Genetic Engineering; D007254:Information Science; D054852:Small Molecule Libraries
chemical_list: D054852:Small Molecule Libraries