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MIPkit

Molecularly Imprinted Polymers (MIPs)

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Overview of MIP development, made with Biorender.

Molecularly Imprinted Polymers (MIPs) are synthetic recognition elements tailored to specific biomarkers, ligands, and ions. Unlike organically derived receptors, MIPs are polymer matrices generated about the desired analyte from a range of functional monomers (FMs), bypassing the need for identification and isolation of natural biorecognition elements.

Purpose

MIPkit is designed to simplify the MIP recipe development process by standardizing libraries, docking procedures, and GROMACS environments. Given an identified template, functional monomers can be screened, allowing for selection of best performing monomers. From here, a recipe can be developed and docked to the template. This provides the precomplex structure that can be polymerized to develop MIPs and NIPs for comparison.

Bioinspired Materials and Biosensor Technologies (BMBT)

BMBT is chaired by Prof. Dr. Zeynep Altintas at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, specializing in a range of biosensing and biomaterial technologies. Clicking the globe in the footer will bring you to the group website.

For any issues, please open an issue on the GitHub page. If you have suggestions for features, please open a discussion.