HotSpot Wizard 2.0: automated design of site-specific mutations and smart libraries in protein engineering

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2016, Pages W479-W487

  Bendl, Jaroslav ^a,b,c   Stourac, Jan ^a   Sebestova, Eva ^a   Vavra, Ondrej ^a   Musil, Milos ^a,b   Brezovsky, Jan ^a,c   Damborsky, Jiri ^a,c  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c ST ANNE S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PEPTIDE LIBRARY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CALCULATION; CODON; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DESIGN; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BIOCATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENETICS; INTERNET; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; MUTATION; PEPTIDE LIBRARY; PROCEDURES; SOFTWARE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AUTOMATION; BIOCATALYSIS; DATABASES, PROTEIN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INTERNET; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; PEPTIDE LIBRARY; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEINS; SOFTWARE; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 85018064697     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw416     Document Type: Article

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