Obvious superiority of biotransformation in synthesis of chiral and natural drugs to the tranditional chemical synthesis and the extraction of natural product is also reported in this paper.

• 介绍了生物转化的研究现状,一些新技术在生物转化上的应用,以及生物转化在手性药物和天然药物合成中较传统的化学合成和天然提取方法具有的明显优势。