Directed Evolution Library Creation: Methods and Protocols

by George Georgiou and Frances H. Arnold

Book Overview

Biological systems are very special substrates for engineering-uniquely the products of evolution, they are easily redesigned by similar approaches. A simple algorithm of iterative cycles of diversification and selection, evolution works at all scales, from single molecules to whole ecosystems. In the little more than a decade since the first reported applications of evolutionary design to enzyme engineering, directed evolution has matured to the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1617374717
• ISBN13: 9781617374715
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Humana
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"