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Edited by Richard Cammack, Teresa Atwood, Peter Campbell, Howard Parish, Anthony Smith, Frank Vella and John Stirling.

in Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

January 2006; published online January 2008.

Reference Entry. Subjects: biochemistry. 46 words.

symbol for

1 acid‐catalysed (of a reaction mechanism).

2 a residue of the α‐amino acid l‐alanine (alternative to

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a

Edited by Richard Cammack, Teresa Atwood, Peter Campbell, Howard Parish, Anthony Smith, Frank Vella and John Stirling.

in Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

January 2006; published online January 2008.

Reference Entry. Subjects: biochemistry. 18 words.

1 abbr. for adsorbed.

2 symbol for atto+ (SI prefix denoting 10−18).

3 axial.

4 year.

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2′‐5′A

Edited by Richard Cammack, Teresa Atwood, Peter Campbell, Howard Parish, Anthony Smith, Frank Vella and John Stirling.

in Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

January 2006; published online January 2008.

Reference Entry. Subjects: biochemistry. 71 words.

symbol for any member of a series of oligonucleotides of the general formula pa A[2′p5′A]n, where p

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(A + T)/(G + C) ratio

Edited by Richard Cammack, Teresa Atwood, Peter Campbell, Howard Parish, Anthony Smith, Frank Vella and John Stirling.

in Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

January 2006; published online January 2008.

Reference Entry. Subjects: biochemistry. 50 words.

the ratio of the sum of the adenine plus thymine bases to the sum of the guanine plus cytosine bases

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A “Glyconutrient Sham”

Ronald L Schnaar and Hudson H Freeze.

in Glycobiology

September 2008; published online September 2008.

Journal Article. Subjects: carbohydrates. 4364 words.

The discipline of glycobiology contributes to our understanding of human health and disease through research, most of which is published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Recently, legitimate...

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A “Long Indel” Model For Evolutionary Sequence Alignment

I. Miklós, G. A. Lunter and I. Holmes.

in Molecular Biology and Evolution

March 2004; published online March 2004.

Journal Article. Subjects: evolutionary biology; molecular and cell biology. 8035 words.

We present a new probabilistic model of sequence evolution, allowing indels of arbitrary length, and give sequence alignment algorithms for our model. Previously implemented evolutionary...

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A “One-Two Punch” Leading to Hepatitis C Seroconversion

Ellen H. Nagami, Arthur Y. Kim, Christopher E. Birch, Melinda J. Bowen and Barbara H. McGovern.

in Clinical Infectious Diseases

February 2011; published online February 2011.

Journal Article. Subjects: infectious diseases; immunology; public health and epidemiology; microbiology. 1692 words.

We report a case of acute hepatitis C virus infection that occurred after a traumatic altercation among prison inmates. This report has significant implications for infection control policies and...

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A “Query” Pancreatitis in a Young Shepherdess: An Uncommon Manifestation of Acute Q Fever

Andreas Stein, Bruno Berthet and Didier Raoult.

in Clinical Infectious Diseases

July 1999; published online July 1999.

Journal Article. Subjects: infectious diseases; immunology; public health and epidemiology; microbiology. 0 words.

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A “seascape genetic” snapshot of Sebastes marinus calls for further investigation across the North Atlantic

Christophe Pampoulie, David Gíslason and Anna Kristin Daníelsdóttir.

in ICES Journal of Marine Science

December 2009; published online July 2009.

Journal Article. Subjects: environmental science; marine and estuarine biology. 2457 words.

Pampoulie, C., Gíslason, D., and Daníelsdóttir, A. K. 2009. A “seascape genetic” snapshot of Sebastes marinus calls for further investigation across the North Atlantic. – ICES Journal of Marine...

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A ‘one-pot’ assay for the accessibility of DNA in a nucleosome core particle

Chenyi Wu and Andrew Travers.

in Nucleic Acids Research

January 2004; published online January 2004.

Journal Article. Subjects: genetics and genomics; chemistry; bioinformatics and computational biology; molecular and cell biology. 3403 words.

The accessibility of nucleosomal DNA to transcription factors and other sequence-specific DNA binding proteins is of importance in the consideration of mechanisms of transcriptional control....

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