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Thinking combinatorially
1Santa Fe Institute, 1660 Old Pecos Trail, Suite A, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA. stu@santafe.edu
Current Opinion in Chemical Biology
|June 9, 1999
Abstract:
Biopolymers and chemical compounds with novel functions can be selected or screened from randomized libraries. Recently, it has become possible to augment the functions of biopolymers via the conjugation or incorporation of unnatural chemical moieties. In the future, it should prove possible to engineer systems that can self-evolve and thereby reveal unexpected emergent properties.