{"term":{"id":"11194","title":"saturation mutagenesis","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - saturation mutagenesis","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.11194","code":"11194","status":"current","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"Mutagenesis screening in which a large number of mutations are introduced in a target area of the genome with the aim of identifying all the genes or their functions that are associated with that area.","sources":["PAC, 2016, 88, 713. 'Glossary of terms used in developmental and reproductive toxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2016)' on page 802 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/pac-2015-1202)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/11194\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/11194\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/11194\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'saturation mutagenesis' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351\/goldbook.11194","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-08-03T14:18:30+00:00"}}