Alternative methods of processing bio-feedstocks in formulated consumer product design

作者：Peremezhney Nicolai; Jacob Philipp Maximilian; Lapkin Alexei^*

来源：Frontiers in Chemistry, 2014, 2: UNSP 26.

DOI：10.3389/fchem.2014.00026

• processing bio-feedstocks
• expert systems
• evolution-based product design

In this work new methods of processing bio-feedstocks in the formulated consumer products industry are discussed. Our current approach to formulated products design is based on heuristic knowledge of formulators that allows selecting individual compounds from a library of available materials with known properties. We speculate that most of the compounds (or functions) that make up the product to be designed can potentially be obtained from a few bio-sources. In this case, it may be possible to design a sequence of transformations required to convert feedstocks into products with desired properties, analogous to a metabolic pathway of a complex organism. We conceptualize some novel approaches to processing bio-feedstocks with the aim of bypassing the step of a fixed library of ingredients. Two approaches are brought forward: one making use of knowledge -based expert systems and the other making use of applications of metabolic engineering and dynamic combinatorial chemistry.

• 出版日期2014