University of Minnesota Biocatalysis/Biodegradation Database
                  Progress Report 83 - November 3, 2000

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- The UM-BBD has a new URL. The old one will still work for the present, 
  but the new one is shorter and eliminates one backslash (/). It is:  
  http://umbbd.ahc.umn.edu/

- A pathway for Propachlor (2-chloro-N-isopropylacetanilide) has been   
  added. This pathway was developed by a student in our 2000 Biocatalysis 
  and Biodegradation class.
  http://umbbd.ahc.umn.edu/ppc/ppc_map.html
  http://www.cbs.umn.edu/class/bioc/5309/idl/

- 35 UM-BBD enzymes have recently been assigned 4-digit EC codes, 
  systematic names, and other attributes by the Nomenclature Commission 
  of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 
  (IUBMB), and many more will gain this information in 2001.  IUBMB
  Nomenclature Commission staff report that UM-BBD organization, 
  primary reaction references, and dynamic reference searches greatly 
  facilitate their task of classifying its enzymes.  A list of all 
  UM-BBD enzymes (presently 425), ordered by EC code, is available.
  http://umbbd.ahc.umn.edu/cgi-bin/page.cgi?ptype=allenzymes
  
- On the Useful Internet Resources page, a link has been updated for 
  the List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature and a link
  has been deleted for the Groundwater Pollution Primer from Virginia
  Tech.
  http://umbbd.ahc.umn.edu/resources.html

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