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Published online 27 October 1999 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news991028-7
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The hot sequence shuffle
Genetics is revolutionizing industrial processes for making everything from antibiotics to plastics. Now, as the Fifteenth Enzyme Engineering Conference heard in Kona, Hawaii, last week, researchers are creating new combinations of genetic sequences and mining them to produce biological catalysts that work more efficiently, more cleanly, and perform tasks never conceived by nature.
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