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Encoding chemistry

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A new methodology combining small molecules and phage-displayed peptides enables the isolation of chemically modified bicyclic peptides capable of high-affinity recognition of target proteins.

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Figure 1: Schematic representation of display methodologies for the construction of large repertoires of macromolecules or smaller organic molecules.

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  1. Dario Neri and André W. Brändli are in the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.,

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D.N. is a cofounder and shareholder of Philogen (www.philogen.com), a company that develops biotech products originating from phage display libraries and DNA-encoded chemical libraries.

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