Research Tools
THE USE OF ENZYMES AS BIOCATALYTICAL TOOLS IS BOTH "OF EXTRAORDINARY VALUE" AND "HIGH TECH".
Applications of BIOCATALYTICAL TOOLS in Life Sciences are for scientific research in general and for the development of therapeutics in molecular medicine as well as for other medical applications ,e.g. the use for Diagnostic Applications in HEALTH CARE, in particular. The use of enzymes as biocatalytical tools is leading to a NEW AGE of the efficient use of renewable resources and Synthetic Biology.
Due to their high specificity enzyme catalysed reactions are to a major part the critical prerequesit for detection and measuring of specific biological parameters in ANALYTIC Applications such as most Biochemical Analytics, which can often be performed in complex mixtures. These properties are superior in DIAGNOSTIC Applications, in Medical Environments as well as in other Life Science Analytics or Nutritional Analytics of food and feed, Environmental Analytics and partly in analytics of industrial processes.
In biochemical analytics generally, enzymes as BIOCATALYTICAL TOOLS in BioAssays are ideal to be used for highly specialized functions to detect and measure. In addition enzyme based BioAssays are very powerful in combination with High Throughput Analyses.
In particular BioAssays are a valuable part of many biopharmaceutical analytics, pharma screenings, and identification and validation of drug candidates.
In addition the unique properties mentioned above, are the major basis of Diagnostic Tools in modification or splitting of molecules or removal of groups as well as for molecularbiological analytics and the use as molecularbiological tools e.g. for use in CONSTRUCTIONal Biology e.g. in Genetic Engineering.
Due to their high specificity of Biochemical Catalysis enzymes are increasingly part of pharmaceutical, chemical or biochemical syntheses and increasingly contribute to the PRODUCTION of BioLogics. Enzymatic syntheses are cost effective, safe resources of matter, energy, time, and money. In addition they are ecologically compatible by working at moderate temperatures predominantly in solvent water.
In the expression "BIOCATALYTICAL TOOLS" the BioSynthetics Database is extended to any catalytically active biomolecule or biomolecule related molecule, naturally occuring or artificially derived (by design or molecular selection) from diversified molecule libraries and related procedures and respectively if the catalysed reaction from educt to product is a natural occuring molecule or an artificially designed one. Thus any specific catalytic function applied in BASIC Synthetic, Pharmaceutical or Biological Chemistry is part of the collection of BIOCATALYTICAL TOOLS respectively if the function is splitting, joining, modifying, removing, degrading, synthetic or a redox function.