Inventors:
David R. Liu - Lexington MA, US
Zev J. Gartner - Santa Cruz CA, US
Jeffrey B. Doyon - Allston MA, US
Christopher T. Calderone - Boston MA, US
Matthew W. Kanan - Cambridge MA, US
Xiaoyu Li - Cambridge MA, US
Thomas M. Snyder - Cambridge MA, US
Daniel M. Rosenbaum - Burlingame CA, US
Assignee:
President and Fellows of Harvard College - Cambridge MA
International Classification:
C12Q 1/68
Abstract:
Nature evolves biological molecules such as proteins through iterated rounds of diversification, selection, and amplification. The power of Nature and the flexibility of organic synthesis are combined in nucleic acid-templated synthesis. The present invention provides a variety of template architectures for performing nucleic acid-templated synthesis, methods for increasing the selectivity of nucleic acid-templated reactions, methods for performing stereoselective nucleic acid-templated reactions, methods of selecting for reaction products resulting from nucleic acid-templated synthesis, and methods of identifying new chemical reactions based on nucleic acid-templated synthesis.