The work in the lab as well as the modeling part was fulfilled by the team members only.
We want to thanks our Advisors for supporting the project design, result interpretation and trouble shooting.

Acknowledgement

Thanks to Dr. Johannes Haerle (from Panke Group, D-BSSE Basel) for the hydrolase parts
Thanks to the iGEM 2012 Team ETH Zurich for the general structure of the template header code

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