Guidelines on developing robust biocatalysts for biorefinery
Global consumption of crude oil was doubled within the past half century, hitting 4.5 billion tons in 2018 compared to 2.4 billion tons in 1971 (www.iea.org), which has raised concerns not only on its reliable supply, but also on environmental impact associated with the over-consumption of petroleum-derived products. Lignocellulosic biomass is abundant, renewable, and environmentally friendly. Within the past decade, unprecedented progress has been made in omics analysis for life science and biotechnology innovations on metabolic engineering and synthetic biology for developing robust biocatalysts, either enzymes or microbial cell factories to perform bioconversion more efficiently than ever before. However, guidelines for scientists and engineers with different backgrounds to work efficiently, as well as for graduates to learn and start their research quickly on how to engineer and develop robust biocatalysts, are lacking. Many of them are inundated with references that need to be assessed for merits. Therefore, it is imperative to edit guidelines for scientists, engineers, and graduates to work more efficiently to support the biorefinery industry, and through them stakeholders, ventures, and policy makers can be convinced to make use of historical opportunities with biorefinery for sustainable development.
Group members for this project are mainly from IUPAC and the European Federation of Biotechnology (EFB). While IUPAC is fostering chemistry and biochemistry internationally, EFB is a voice for biotechnology in Europe. The organizations are fulfilling the objectives of this project through interdisciplinary and international cooperation.
For more information and comments, contact Task Group Chair Fengwi Bai <fwbai@sjtu.edu.cn> https://iupac.org/project/2019-046-3-300
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