University of Minnesota Biocatalysis/Biodegradation Database
                  Progress Report 121 - September 13, 2004

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- A pathway for Osmium Reduction has been added and the pathway for
  Tetrahydrofuran has been updated.  The Osmium pathway is the
  twelfth metal, metalloid or metal chelator pathway in the
  UM-BBD.  A list of these is available.
  http://umbbd.ahc.umn.edu/osm/osm_map.html
  http://srs.ebi.ac.uk/srs6bin/cgi-bin/wgetz?-e+[upathway-id:'osm_map']
  http://umbbd.ahc.umn.edu/thf/thf_map.html
  http://srs.ebi.ac.uk/srs6bin/cgi-bin/wgetz?-e+[upathway-id:'thf_map']
  http://umbbd.ahc.umn.edu/metals.html

- Format of a BioTransformation Rule Page has been added to
  About the UM-BBD page.
  http://umbbd.ahc.umn.edu/aboutBBD.html#btrule
  http://umbbd.ahc.umn.edu/aboutBBD.html

- On the Useful Internet Resources page, the links for the
  IUBMB-Nicholson Metabolic Pathway Chart and the American Society
  for Microbiology have been updated.
  http://umbbd.ahc.umn.edu/resources.html

- A new publication: Hou, B.K., Ellis, L.B.M., and Wackett, L.P. (2004)
  "Encoding Microbial Metabolic Logic: Predicting Biodegradation"
  Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology, 31: 261-272,
  has been added to the Publications page.
  http://umbbd.ahc.umn.edu/publications/

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