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Tuesday, 19 April 2016

Creating bioactive molecules from online data

From a genome sequence to that protein in your hand is a well –established process


Until I started collaborating closely with biologists ten years ago, my impression of how easy it was to get a sample of a complex biomolecule like a protein was based on popular science stories describing days/months of tedious purification of buckets of biomass (sea sponges, exotic fungi, cow bile, etc) to end up with a single vial containing so little it was invisible to the naked eye.

Follow the link to see the schematic explained.


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