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ArticleTrends in biotechnology2003

Synthetic gene libraries: in search of the optimal diversity.

Marc Ostermeier

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Article in Trends in biotechnology, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. On the conservative nature of intragenic recombination.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2005
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  5. FamClash: a method for ranking the activity of engineered enzymes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2004
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5 · Who and what money

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1 author.

Marc OstermeierDept of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA. oster@jhu.edu

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Directed evolution has proven to be an effective method for evolving proteins with desired properties. A key step is the creation of suitably diverse gene libraries. Two new methods for creating such libraries make sole use of synthesized oligonucleotides and allow researchers to tailor the diversity of a library with greater precision and create libraries with greater diversity than was previously possible. Such increased diversity appears to accelerate directed evolution.

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Gene LibraryGenes, SyntheticPeptide LibraryRecombination, GeneticCloning, MolecularDirected Molecular EvolutionEpidermal Growth FactorGenetic EngineeringGenetic VariationProtein EngineeringProteinsSubtilisinEpidermal Growth FactorPeptide LibraryProteinsSubtilisin

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