“…Such a library allows easy selection, which includes three steps: (i) incubating the molecule with the phage library, (ii) removing unbound phage particles, and (iii) amplifying the selected phages in E. coli cells (Paschke 2006). The phage-display technique has been used for many different purposes: identifying protein-ligand interactions, including screening for receptor agonists and antagonists, defining epitopes of monoclonal antibodies, selecting enzyme substrates or inhibitors, designing and improving enzyme properties, selecting targets for the inhibition of tumor-specific angiogenesis, combating infectious diseases, identifying peptide drug candidates, and for vaccine development (e.g., vvIBDV, CSFV, anthrax toxin, HIV, most of these discussed below) (Benhar 2001;Fernandez-Gacio et al 2003;Konthur 2002;Mullen et al 2006;Sergeeva et al 2006;Willats 2002;Wu et al 2006). This method has several advantages: the very high number of proteins that can be displayed, high flexibility, the selection may be performed in vitro and in vivo, in vitro selection may also involve inorganic molecules, and the technique is effective, fast, cheap, easy to control, and requires no special equipment (Willats 2002).…”