Directed Evolution of Thermostable Enzymes: A Review of Screening Throughput and Selection Design
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22668340Keywords:
Directed Evolution of Thermostable Enzymes; Biological sciences; Evidence synthesis; Reproducibility; Research methodologyAbstract
Directed Evolution of Thermostable Enzymes has moved quickly from a niche research question to something a wider community
can now investigate with reasonably reliable tools, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull together the
current evidence for directed evolution of thermostable enzymes, covering the methodological, practical, regulatory and cost
angles, with an eye on where practice has genuinely settled and where researchers and reviewers are still largely working it out
for themselves. Selective, context-specific adoption looks better supported by the evidence gathered here than either broad rollout
or blanket avoidance.
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