Metabolic pathway resources: A guide through the maze

Navigating the Monk Seal Maze – A Guide for the Layperson

When attempts were made to forcibly reintroduce Hawaiian monk seals to a former breeding site at Midway Atoll, all 18 translocated animals either died or disappeared in short order. More recently, a drastic reduction in human disturbance, coinciding with the closure of Midway’s Naval Base, has encouraged monk seals to recolonise the atoll of their own accord. But with ecotourism now developing ...

'CHIP'ping a way through the cancer maze.

Expanding the repertoire of biofuel alternatives through metabolic pathway evolution.

A multitude of concerns that include climate change, political instability, and depletion of petroleum resources has recently ignited renewed interest in fossil fuel alternatives (1). As a result, microbial systems have been extensively explored and successfully used for the biosynthesis of some biofuels, most notably ethanol (2, 3). Higher-chain alcohols, however, offer several advantages comp...

Guide through the blizzard

Biology's dense particularity is criss-crossed with unifying connections. Each of us — student, teacher, or professional scientist — can master the details of a narrow subject and come to see how they hang together. We know very well, also, that the most exciting discoveries reveal connections between one mass of particulars and its near and distant neighbors. Even so, many of us are daunted by...

A Guide for the Production of Reusable Language Resources

The project described in this paper is funded by the French Ministry of Research. It aims at providing producers of Language Resources, and HLT players in general, with a guide which offers technical, legal and strategic recommendations/guidelines for the reuse of their Language Resources. The guide is dedicated in particular to academic laboratories who produce Language Resources and may benef...