Solid Phase Synthesis and Biotechnological Approaches

Automated carbohydrate synthesis allows for the production of complex carbohydrates orders of magnitude faster than other approaches. This advance has the potential to parallel the breakthroughs achieved by researchers in the peptide and DNA fields that opened up the pro-teomic and genomic eras in biotechnology. By increasing the scope of the carbohydrate building block library and streamlining the reaction conditions further we anticipate that automated solid-phase carbohydrate synthesis will become the method of choice for carbohydrate production. 

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