Codon compression algorithms for saturation mutagenesis

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 604-614

  Pines, Gur ^a   Pines, Assaf ^c   Garst, Andrew D ^a   Zeitoun, Ramsey I ^a   Lynch, Sean A ^a,b   Gill, Ryan T ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

codon redundancy; codon usage; CRISPR selection; genome editing; library size; saturation mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DNA; GENOMIC DNA; KANAMYCIN; NUCLEIC ACID; CODON; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ALGORITHM; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; CODON; CODON COMPRESSION ALGORITHM; CODON REDUNDANCY; CODON USAGE; COMBINATORIAL LIBRARY; COMPRESSION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA LIBRARY; GENETIC CODE; GENOME; LOGIC; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SATURATION MUTAGENESIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; MUTATION; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN ENGINEERING;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACIDS; CODON; GENE LIBRARY; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PROTEIN ENGINEERING;

EID: 84929593887     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sb500282v     Document Type: Article

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