- Yanping Zhang: Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
The background and the importance of developing industrial biotechnology were illustrated, followed by a brief analysis on the driving effect of genomics and functional genomics. Seventeen papers covering metabolic engineering, fermentation engineering, industrial enzymes and biocatalysis are published in this special issue. These papers were briefly introduced to show the most recent developments of industrial biotechnology.