Patent ID: 6961664

Claim:
A method of identifying molecules for production, wherein the molecules are represented by concatenated strings, said method comprising: i) encoding two or more biological molecules into a data structure of initial character strings to provide a collection of two or more different initial character strings wherein each of said biological molecules comprises at least about 10 subunits; ii) selecting at least two substrings from said initial character strings; iii) concatenating said substrings to form one or more product strings about the same length as one or more of the initial character strings; iv) adding the product strings to a data structure to populate a data structure of product strings; v) determining sequence identities of at least one of the product strings relative to at least one initial character string; and vi) selecting one or more product biological molecules for production, wherein the one or more product biological molecules correspond to one or more of the product strings having greater than 30% sequence identity with the at least one initial character string.