General description
Experts update the classic bioconjugation methods and introduce techniques that go beyond pure biomedical applications to include elements from organic synthesis, molecular biology, and materials science. These methods cover the preparation of protein conjugates using covalent and noncovalent conjugation, the synthesis of nucleic acid conjugates using a variety of labeling techniques, and approaches to semisynthetic conjugates of proteins. Additional chapters address on-chip synthesis to generate microarrays for the high-throughput analysis of RNA and DNA.