Can Mutazyme be powered up?
Adding manganese works poorly, but stronger variants seem to be known.
(see also discussion about Mutazyme in Part I and II)
Sunday, 23 April 2017
Tuesday, 11 April 2017
A simple hack for a phylogenetic Noah's ark dilemma
Ever had an endless list of bacterial names that needed a trim?
Ever see a tree where the bacterium chosen is not the famous one, but it's cousin? Or actually a tree where you don't recognise a single name?
The issue of picking bacteria from a list is what I call Noah's ark dilemma. This term is used generally for the biblical problem of the size of the boat required for all the animals in existence (except dinosaurs). Here I mean it picking the most meaningful bacteria from a list. In the past year, I have come to rely on a simple solution: Pubmed popularity.
Ever see a tree where the bacterium chosen is not the famous one, but it's cousin? Or actually a tree where you don't recognise a single name?
The issue of picking bacteria from a list is what I call Noah's ark dilemma. This term is used generally for the biblical problem of the size of the boat required for all the animals in existence (except dinosaurs). Here I mean it picking the most meaningful bacteria from a list. In the past year, I have come to rely on a simple solution: Pubmed popularity.
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