Experimental literature, made explorable

Find the engineering moves behind microbial production.

Search 25 years of experimentally reported strain designs by organism, product, gene, and modification direction.

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Illustration of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Escherichia coli as competing microbial cell factories — Different hosts. Shared engineering logic.

15,798 publications

2,370 organism labels

4,298 product labels

7,776 gene targets

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About ELISER

A literature-scale starting point for strain engineering.

ELISER compiles experimentally reported microbial strain-design strategies, connecting host organisms and target products to the genes researchers increased, decreased, or otherwise modified.

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“A stepping stone for starting new strain-design projects without reinventing the wheel.”
Márquez-Zavala, Di Bartolomeo & Machado