insilico.mutagenesis: A primer selection tool designed for sequence scanning applications used in directed evolution experiments

BioTechniques

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 679-682

  Krauss, Ulrich ^a   Eggert, Thorsten ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CLONING; SCANNING;

INSILICO.MUTAGENESIS; MEGAPRIMER METHOD; SEQUENCE SCANNING APPLICATIONS; STRUCTURE-FUNCTION DEPENDENCY;

MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID; SPACER DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MUTAGENESIS; PROMOTER REGION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ALGORITHMS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; INTERNET; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 33644873954     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/000112013     Document Type: Article

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