Microbial Genomics and Biotechnology is the study of microbial genes and genome organization, regulation, function, and ecology, and applied strategies for harnessing microbes (their genes, enzymes, and metabolic outputs) for human endeavors. Methods from molecular biology (recombinant DNA and DNA sequencing), bioinformatics, and cultivation-based microbiology are combined with those from industry and medicine to solve pressing societal needs (drug discovery and production, new products development, bioremediation, etc), as well as to untangle the basic inner workings of microbial cells.
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