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I thank Mr. Ming Du (from Peking University) for kindly helping me to prepare figures 1 and 2, and Dr. Kevin (Keqin) Chen for providing constructive comments on the contents of this review paper.
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Chang, Z. The 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Engineering proteins (enzymes/peptide/antibodies) towards desired properties via the construction of random libraries. Sci. China Life Sci. 62, 713–724 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-019-9498-2
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