University of Minnesota Biocatalysis/Biodegradation Database
                  Progress Report 74 - January 14, 2000

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- The UM-BBD now has a UK mirror site, hosted by the European
  Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK.  It is part of their
  SRS6 webserver.  Once there, choose "Databanks" and scroll towards the
  bottom of the page or choose "Start" and expand "Metabolic Pathways."
  The UM-BBD has five databanks under "Metabolic Pathways",
  UPATHWAY, UIMAGEMAP, UREACTION, UENZYME and UCOMPOUND.  A link to the
  UK mirror has been added to our main menu.  We will now give two URLs
  for each new pathway - the UM and UK versions.
  http://srs6.ebi.ac.uk/
  http://www.labmed.umn.edu/umbbd/

- One pathway was added for adamantanone.  This is the first tricyclic
  aliphatic compound in the UM-BBD.  It has been added to the list of
  UM-BBD functional groups. 
  http://www.labmed.umn.edu/umbbd/ada/ada_map.html
  http://srs6.ebi.ac.uk/srs6bin/cgi-bin/wgetz?-e+[UPATHWAY-ID:'ada_map']
  http://www.labmed.umn.edu/umbbd/search/FuncGrps.html

- We now have a page which lists 108 reactions for toluene
  1,2-dioxygenase.  There is a link to this page on both UM-BBD tdo
  reaction pages and on the UM-BBD main menu. If there are any reactions
  we have missed, please let us know.
  http://www.labmed.umn.edu/servlets/pageservlet?ptype=e&enzymeID=e0155
  http://www.labmed.umn.edu/umbbd/tol/tdo.html

- Recent publication: Ellis, L.B.M., Hershberger, C.D., and Wackett, 
  L.P. (2000) "The University of Minnesota Biocatalysis/Biodegradation 
  Database: Microorganisms, Genomics, and Prediction" Nucleic Acids 
  Research 28: 377-379. The full text of this paper is linked to on the 
  UM-BBD main menu and the publications page. Use this paper or its 
  successors to cite the database.
  http://www.labmed.umn.edu/umbbd/publications/gkd019_gml.pdf
  http://www.labmed.umn.edu/umbbd/index.html
  http://www.labmed.umn.edu/umbbd/publications/index.html

- On the Useful Internet Resources page, links have been updated for 
  the EBI Sequence Retrieval System (SRS) and the List of Designated 
  Hazardous Substances from the Australian National Occupational 
  Health and Safety Commission.
  http://www.labmed.umn.edu/umbbd/resources.html

- The What's New page restarts; 1999 activities have been archived.
  http://www.labmed.umn.edu/umbbd/whatsnew.html

If you have comments on any aspect of the UM-BBD, please let us know.
         
Lynda Ellis <[log in to unmask]>