From a word to a world: the current situation in the interdisciplinary field of synthetic biology

Using a carefully designed search query, we describe the field of synthetic biology in terms of leading countries, organizations and funding sources. Besides articles we also paid some attention to patents. The USA is the leading country in this field, followed by China. There is a clear exponential...

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Main Authors: Xiaojun Hu, Ronald Rousseau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2015-01-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/728.pdf