This book examines modern industrial biotechnology, focusing on the methods currently being developed and used by pharmaceutical and biotechnology ventures to discover new therapeutic agents. It explores promising trends, applications and strategies for therapeutic intervention.

The third edition of In Vitro Mutagenesis Protocols represents a practical toolbox containing protocols vital to advancing our understanding of the connection between nucleotide sequence and sequence function.

Antifreeze proteins enable organisms to avoid freezing under extreme conditions. The greatest diversity of known antifreeze proteins is in teleost fish. This volume contains articles from a wide spectrum of researchers on different areas of fish antifreeze research.

This volume explores the latest techniques used by researchers to study directed evolution (DE) at each stage of the Design-Build-Test-Learn cycle.