Publisher's Synopsis
These are the proceedings of an Engineering Foundation conference cosponsored by the Natural Science Foundation of China and the Chinese Society for Enzyme Engineering, October 12-17, 1997.;This is a straightforward approach to examining enzyme technology as an interdisciplinary field that has a broad impact in biotechnology, synthetic chemistry, pharmaceutical development and agriculture. The book shows how enzymes are used routinely in the development of new biologically active compounds and their intermediates.