Searching for de novo Totally Random Amino Acid Sequences

Chemical Synthetic Biology

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 155-174

  Chiarabelli, Cristiano ^a   Pallares, Cecilia Portela ^a   Quintarelli, Anna ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alternative concept in synthetic biology so called chemical synthetic biology; Combinatorial chemistry different ways, using pre existing synthetic routes or methods; Combinatorial peptide library approach, two methods phage display and synthetic peptide libraries; Model for chemical evolution of macromolecular sequences; Random protein space, exploration isolation of new functional proteins; Rationale of a "total randomization" approach different; Searching, for de novo totally random amino acid sequences; Sequencing of organism genomes in bioinformatics and computational biology; Split and mix synthesis method; Strategies for peptide libraries production

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885409306     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470977873.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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