Nature's treasure chest

The Treasure Chest

This is a selected list of the packages posted to CTAN from January 2004 through December 2004, with descriptive text pulled from the announcement or researched and edited for brevity. Please inform us of any errors. This installment, like the last, lists entries alphabetically within CTAN directories, rather than by date. We’ve also omitted some packages which had only minor updates, again for...

LMOs: treasure chest or Pandora's box?

PrimerZ (http://genepipe.ngc.sinica.edu.tw/primerz/) is a web application dedicated primarily to primer design for genes and human SNPs. PrimerZ accepts genes by gene name or Ensembl accession code, and SNPs by dbSNP rs or AFFY_Probe IDs. The promoter and exon sequence information of all gene transcripts fetched from the Ensembl database (http://www.ensembl.org/) are processed before being pass...

Treasure Chest or Time Bomb? Reevaluating Your Financing Sub

Unlocking nature’s treasure-chest: screening for oleaginous algae

Micro-algae synthesize high levels of lipids, carbohydrates and proteins photoautotrophically, thus attracting considerable interest for the biotechnological production of fuels, environmental remediation, functional foods and nutraceuticals. Currently, only a few micro-algae species are grown commercially at large-scale, primarily for "health-foods" and pigments. For a range of potential produ...

The Natures of Nonconfigurationality