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The present invention provides methods of re-engineering or re-shaping an antibody from a first species, wherein the re-engineered or re-shaped antibody does not elicit undesired immune response in a second species, and the re-engineered or re-shaped antibody retains substantially the same antigen binding-ability of the antibody from the first species. In accordance with the present invention, a combinatorial library comprising the CDRs of the antibody from the first species fused in frame with framework regions derived from a second species can be constructed and screened for the desired modified antibody. In particular, the present invention provides methods utilizing low homology acceptor antibody frameworks for efficiently humanizing an antibody or a fragment thereof. The present invention also provides antibodies produced by the methods of the invention.

Multimolecular devices and drug delivery systems prepared from synthetic heteropolymers, heteropolymeric discrete structures, multivalent heteropolymeric hybrid structures, aptameric multimolecular devices, multivalent imprints, tethered specific recognition devices, paired specific recognition devices, nonaptameric multimolecular devices and immobilized multimolecular structures are provided, including molecular adsorbents and multimolecular adherents, adhesives, transducers, switches, sensors and delivery systems. Methods for selecting single synthetic nucleotides, shape-specific probes and specifically attractive surfaces for use in these multimolecular devices are also provided. In addition, paired nucleotide-nonnucleotide mapping libraries for transposition of selected populations of selected nonoligonucleotide molecules into selected populations of replicatable nucleotide sequences are described.

The present invention provides methods for determining a nucleic acid sequence by performing successive cycles of duplex extension along a single stranded template. The cycles comprise steps of extension, ligation, and, preferably, cleavage. In certain embodiments the methods make use of extension probes containing phosphorothiolate linkages and employ agents appropriate to cleave such linkages. In certain embodiments the methods make use of extension probes containing an abasic residue or a damaged base and employ agents appropriate to cleave linkages between a nucleoside and an abasic residue and/or agents appropriate to remove a damaged base from a nucleic acid. The invention provides methods of determining information about a sequence using at least two distinguishably labeled probe families. In certain embodiments the methods acquire less than 2 bits of information from each of a plurality of nucleotides in the template in each cycle. In certain embodiments the sequencing reactions are performed on templates attached to beads, which are immobilized in or on a semi-solid support. The invention further provides sets of labeled extension probes containing phosphorothiolate linkages or trigger residues that are suitable for use in the method. In addition, the invention includes performing multiple sequencing reactions on a single template by removing initializing oligonucleotides and extended strands and performing subsequent reactions using different initializing oligonucleotides. The invention further provides efficient methods for preparing templates, particularly for performing sequencing multiple different templates in parallel. The invention also provides methods for performing ligation and cleavage. The invention also provides new libraries of nucleic acid fragments containing paired tags, and methods of preparing microparticles having multiple different templates (e.g., containing paired tags) attached thereto and of sequencing the templates individually. The invention also provides automated sequencing systems, flow cells, image processing methods, and computer-readable media that store computer-executable instructions (e.g., to perform the image-processing methods) and/or sequence information. In certain embodiments the sequence information is stored in a database.

Walk-through mutagenesis and natural-variant combinatorial fibronectin Type III (FN3) polypeptide libraries are described, along with their method of construction and use. Also disclosed are a number of high binding affinity polypeptides selected by screening the libraries against a variety of selected antigens.

Compositions and methods for rapid and highly efficient characterization of genetic diversity in organisms are provided. The methods involve rapid sequencing and characterization of extrachromosomal DNA, particularly plasmids, to identify and isolate useful nucleotide sequences. The method targets plasmid DNA and avoids repeated cloning and sequencing of the host chromosome, thus allowing one to focus on the genetic, elements carrying maximum genetic diversity. The method involves generating a library of extrachromosomal DNA clones, sequencing a portion of the clones, comparing the sequences against a database of existing DNA sequences, using an algorithm to select said novel nucleotide sequence based on the presence or absence of said portion in a database, and identification of at least one novel nucleotide sequence. The DNA sequence can also be translated in all six frames and the resulting amino acid sequences can be compared against a database of protein sequences. The integrated approach provides a rapid and efficient method to identify and isolate useful genes. Organisms of particular interest include, but are not limited to bacteria, fungi, algae, and the like. Compositions comprise a mini-cosmid vector comprising a stuffer fragment and at least one cos site.

De novo synthesized large libraries of nucleic acids are provided herein with low error rates. Further, devices for the manufacturing of high-quality building blocks, such as oligonucleotides, are described herein. Longer nucleic acids can be synthesized in parallel using microfluidic assemblies. Further, methods herein allow for the fast construction of large libraries of long, high-quality genes. Devices for the manufacturing of large libraries of long and high-quality nucleic acids are further described herein.

A minicell display method has been developed which has significant advantages for screening peptide libraries for candidates that can bind and effectively modulate a particular biological process. The method, based on the small, anucleate minicell, has increased versatility in generating unique sequences to screen as well as increasing the size of the peptides to be screened. In vivo mutagenesis, at the level of protein synthesis, as well as DNA replication, increases diversification of the library to be screened and therefore substantially increases the number of potential peptides that can modulate a particular biological response or mechanism.

Libraries of modified AAV cap genes are generated by synthesizing modified cap genes using degenerate oligonucleotides. Combinatorial libraries of virions composed of modified (e.g., chimeric), replication-competent AAV vectors and modified Cap proteins are also produced. Helper vectors are described that encode AAV Rep protein, modified Cap proteins, and Ad proteins. The helper vectors are used to produce stocks of virions composed of modified (e.g., chimeric) capsids and rAAV vectors.

The invention relates to a CRISPR-Cas9 system sgRNA action target screening method. The method comprises the steps of (1) obtaining segments with 5'-Nx-NGG-3' sequences (x is an integer ranging from 19 to 22 and N represents A/T/C/G) in genomes by utilizing whole genome sequences and gene annotation information of published species to serve as candidate targets of CRISPR-Cas9 system sgRNA; (2) fragmenting the genomes into fragments of 22-25bp and screening sequences ending with NGG and non-repeated on the genomes; and (3) comparing the sequences of the candidate targets in the step (1) with the screened sequences in the step (2), and performing screening and sorting on corresponding optimal sequences according to mismatch information and a selection formula to obtain an optimal genome sgRNA action target set. The invention furthermore provides an apparatus used for realizing the screening method. The method is suitable for all species with known genomes and gene annotation information, and a universal sgRNA sequence set of whole genome level of the species is quickly and efficiently obtained to build a gene knockout mutant library or a gene knockout animal model.

A method is provided for selecting nucleric acids encoding gene product is in which the nucleic acid encoding the gene product is selectly and quantitatively amplified depending on the activity of the gene itself or the gene product. The method may, for example, be used in selecting gene products arising from in vitro evolution of molecular libraries.

Disclosed is a method for constructing a long fragment DNA library, comprising the following steps: 1) breaking a long fragment DNA into target fragments of 3-10 kb by transposase, then amplifying the target fragments, and obtaining target fragment amplification products containing dUTP; 2) amplifying the dUTP in the products by removing the target fragments, fragmenting the target fragments secondarily into DNA short fragments of 300-1200 bp; 3) connecting both ends of the DNA short fragments with sequencing linker single chains A and sequencing linker single chains B respectively; and obtaining connecting sequencing linker products; and 4) PCR amplifying the connecting sequencing linker products, to obtain amplification products.

The invention discloses a method for preparing a DNA coding compound library containing two or more pharmacophores. A novel initial head fragment used by the method has two or more chemically-modifiedlinking groups and comprises a nucleotide chain, 5' and 3' of the nucleotide chain respectively have a group R1 and a group R2 capable of performing chemical reaction, n connecting heads are arrangedon the nucleotide chain, each of the connecting heads is a long chain extended after a nucleotide monomer on the nucleotide chain is modified, and the long chain has a site G capable of performing chemical reaction. The site G of the initial head fragment respectively reacts with a fragment compound to generate a fragment compound residue B connecting the site G with the fragment compound together, a DNA coding compound is formed, and finally, the DNA coding compound library containing the two or more pharmacophores can be obtained. Through the method disclosed by the invention and the initial head fragment, the DNA coding compound library containing the two or more pharmacophores can be efficiently, simply and quickly obtained.

The invention provides methods for isothermal amplification of RNA. The methods are particularly suitable for amplifying a plurality of RNA species in a sample. The methods employ a composite primer, a second primer and strand displacement to generate multiple copies of DNA products comprising sequences complementary to an RNA sequence of interest. In another aspect, the methods employ a single primer (which is a composite primer) and strand displacement to generate multiple copies of DNA products comprising sequences complementary to an RNA sequence of interest. In some embodiments, a transcription step is included to generate multiple copies of sense RNA of an RNA sequence of interest. The methods are useful for preparation of nucleic acid libraries and substrates for analysis of gene expression of cells in biological samples. The invention also provides compositions and kits for practicing the amplification methods, as well as methods which use the amplification products.

The invention provides unique index sequences with a length of 7bp. The index sequences can be respectively imported into a DNA(deoxyribonucleic acid) index library through adapter link and PCR (polymerase chain reaction). The invention provides a method for building the DNA index library by using the index sequences based on a solexa sequencing platform of the current illumina company, and the method is applied to solexa DNA sequencing and has the effects on improving the preparation efficiency of the DNA index library, increasing the sequencing throughput of the DNA samples and lowering thesolexa sequencing cost of a single sample.