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Abstract
With now well established procedures for rapid chemical synthesis of oligodeoxyribonucleotides, these compounds have found widespread application in molecular biology research. In particular, the total synthesis of genes has become an attractive basis for the molecular design of proteins. Since synthetic genes have the advantage of being constructed from a set of short oligonucleotides (fragments), new gene variants can be generated conveniently by replacing some of the fragments.