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The synthesis of peptides / G.T. Young -- Chemical synthesis of larg er peptides / Ching-I Niu -- Chemical synthesis of ribonuclease A with full enzymatic activity / H. Yajima and N. Fujii -- Current methods in solid phase peptide synthesis / R.B. Merrifield -- Peptide synthesis by the solid phase condensation of fragments / Yuch Ting Gong -- On solid -phase peptide synthesis / C.H. Li -- Microsequencing by manual and aut omated methods as applied to ribisomal proteins / B. Wittman-Liebold -- Microsequence analysis of polypeptides using automated Edman degradati on / M.W. Hunkapiller and L.E. Hood -- Peptide separation by high press ure liquid chromatography as a prelude to sequencing of peptides and pr oteins / M. Hermodson and W.C. Mahoney -- The role of gas chromatograph y mass spectrometry in the determination of the primary structure of pr oteins / K. Biemann -- Mass spectral strategies for polypeptide amino a cid sequence analysis with dipeptidyl peptidases / H.C. Krutzsch -- Syn thesis of peptides in solution with active esters of Fmoc-amino-acids / M. Bodanszky ... [et al.] -- Peptide synthesis using a pressurized flo w reactor / N. Chaturvedi ... [et al.] -- Comparison of resins for soli d-phase peptide synthesis / J.M. Stewart, P. DerArmey, and S. Berga -- Synthetic peptide strategy for the determination of antigenic sites in the unique COOH-terminal protein of hCG [beta]-subunit / S. Matsuura an d H.C. Chen -- Nonreducible bicyclic somatostatin analogs.