sentences:  Like other methylotrophic species such as "Hansenula polymorpha" and "Pichia pastoris", it is used as a platform for the production of foreign proteins.Yields in a multigram range of a secreted foreign protein have been reported.A computational method, IPRO, recently predicted mutations that experimentally switched the cofactor specificity of Candida boidinii xylose reductase from NADPH to NADH.