Computer-aided protein directed evolution: A review of web servers, databases and other computational tools for protein engineering

Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2012, Pages e201209008-

  Verma, Rajni ^a,b   Schwaneberg, Ulrich ^b   Roccatano, Danilo ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Directed evolution; Diversity generation; Focused library; Mutational effect; Rational design; Semi rational design

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879222069     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20010370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5936/csbj.201209008     Document Type: Article

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