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A new methodology combining small molecules and phage-displayed peptides enables the isolation of chemically modified bicyclic peptides capable of high-affinity recognition of target proteins.

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Figure 1: Schematic representation of display methodologies for the construction of large repertoires of macromolecules or smaller organic molecules.

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Correspondence to Dario Neri.

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D.N. is a cofounder and shareholder of Philogen (www.philogen.com), a company that develops biotech products originating from phage display libraries and DNA-encoded chemical libraries.

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Neri, D., Brändli, A. Encoding chemistry. Nat Chem Biol 5, 452–453 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchembio0709-452

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