Includes bibliographical references and index.

The synthesis of peptides / G.T. Young -- Chemical synthesis of larger 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 automated methods as applied to ribisomal proteins / B. Wittman-Liebold -- Microsequence analysis of polypeptides using automated Edman degradation / M.W. Hunkapiller and L.E. Hood -- Peptide separation by high pressure liquid chromatography as a prelude to sequencing of peptides and proteins / M. Hermodson and W.C. Mahoney -- The role of gas chromatography mass spectrometry in the determination of the primary structure of proteins / K. Biemann -- Mass spectral strategies for polypeptide amino acid sequence analysis with dipeptidyl peptidases / H.C. Krutzsch -- Synthesis of peptides in solution with active esters of Fmoc-amino-acids / M. Bodanszky [and others] -- Peptide synthesis using a pressurized flow reactor / N. Chaturvedi [and others] -- Comparison of resins for solid-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 and H.C. Chen -- Nonreducible bicyclic somatostatin analogs.