Plasmids 101: Screens vs. Selections
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...are measured. While the entire genome can be knocked out with CRISPR, the entirety of the small molecule... another way, only cells or organisms with the desired phenotype will survive and be assayed at the end...phenotype in the surviving population. Selections do require there to be a culture condition that can apply ... have to be addressed with screens. Selections require there to be a culture condition which eliminates...then assay cells which survive as these must have acquired a favorable mutation. But if the cellular pathway... with cellular redundancies, a screen would be required to answer your experimental question. Now that....1246981.
Leemhuis, H., Kelly, R.M., Dijkhuizen, L. Directed evolution of enzymes: Library screening strategies...