In Vitro Compartmentalization (IVC) and Other High-Throughput Screens of Enzyme Libraries

Protein Engineering Handbook, Volume 1 & Volume 2

Volumn 2, Issue , 2011, Pages 649-667

  Aharoni, Amir ^a   Tawfik, Dan S ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Directed evolution; Genotype phenotype linkage; High throughput screening; In vitro compartmentalization (IVC)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884644139     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527634026.ch27     Document Type: Chapter

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