Abstract: The invention relates to a method for synthesizing templated molecules attached to the templated which directed the synthesis thereof. The method involves a template, a scaffold functional entity and a functional entity attached to a building block, which, in turn, is attached the template. The scaffold functional entity and the functional entity of the building block are both provided with complementary dimerization domains allowing the functional entities to come into close proximity when the complementary domains interact with to each other. The method may be used for generating libraries of templated molecules which may be selected for biological activity.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for generating a second-generation library. In a first step, a library of encoded molecules associated with an identifier nucleic acid comprising codons identifying chemical entities that have participated in the formation of the encoded molecule is provided. In a second step, the library is partitioned and encoded molecules having a certain property are selected. Codons of identifiers of selected encoded molecules are subsequently identified, and a second-generation library is prepared using at least some of the chemical entities coded for by the identified codons. The new focused library may be used of another partition step to select encoded molecules with a certain property.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for obtaining structural information about an encoded molecule, wherein the encoded molecule has been produced by a process comprising reacting a plurality of chemical entities, said chemical entities being coded for by codons on a nucleic acid template. The method comprises the steps of providing an array comprising a plurality of single stranded nucleic acid probes immobilized in discrete areas of a solid support, wherein the nucleic acid probes are capable of hybridising to a codon of the template, adding the nucleic acid template or a sequence complementary thereto, to the array under conditions which allow for hybridisation, and observing the discrete areas of the support in which an hybridisation event has occurred.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for synthesising a bifunctional complex comprising an encoded molecule and an identifier polynucleotide identifying the chemical entities having participated in the synthesis of the encoded molecule, said method comprising the steps of i) providing a) at least one template comprising one or more codons capable of hybridising to an anti-codon, wherein said template is optionally associated with one or more chemical entities, and b) a plurality of building blocks each comprising an anti-codon associated with one or more chemical entities, and ii) hybridising the anti-codon of one or more of the provided building blocks to the template, iii) covalently linking said anti-codons and/or linking the at least one template with the anti-codon of at least one building block, thereby generating an identifier polynucleotide capable of identifying chemical entities having participated in the synthesis of the encoded molecule, iv) separating the template from one or more of the anti-codons

Abstract: Disclosed is a microarray comprising a plurality of single stranded nucleic acid probes immobilized in discrete areas of a solid support, said probes being hybridised to a library of complexes, wherein each complex comprises an encoded molecule and a template which codes for said molecule, said template comprising a number of codons which codes for chemical entities which upon reaction form a reaction product which at least partly form part of the encoded molecule.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for obtaining a bifunctional complex comprising a display molecule part and a coding part, wherein a nascent bifunctional complex comprising a chemical reaction site and a priming site for enzymatic addition of a tag is reacted at the chemical reaction site with one or more reactants, and provided with respective tag(s) identifying the reactants(s) at the priming site using one or more enzymes.

Abstract: The present invention provides a new approach to creating novel polynucleotide sequences by point mutation and recombination in vitro of a set of parental sequences. The new polynucleotide sequences can be useful in themselves or they can be used for the templated synthesis of polymers, e.g. polypeptides composed of ?-amino acids as occurring naturally in protein synthesis or polymers comprised of ?-amino acids or other building blocks as described (Templated molecules).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for synthesising templated molecules. In one aspect of the invention, the templated molecules are linked to the template which templated the synthesis thereof. The intion allows the generation of libraries which can be screened for e.g. therapeutic activity.

Abstract: Nucleoside derivatives as building blocks for templated libraries are described.