The University of Minnesota Biocatalysis/Biodegradation Database: emphasizing enzymes

The University of Minnesota Biocatalysis/Biodegradation Database (UM-BBD, http://umbbd.ahc.umn.edu/) provides curated information on microbial catabolic enzymes and their organization into metabolic pathways. Currently, it contains information on over 400 enzymes. In the last year the enzyme page was enhanced to contain more internal and external links; it also displays the different metabolic pathways in which each enzyme participates. In collaboration with the Nomenclature Commission of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 35 UM-BBD enzymes were assigned complete EC codes during 2000. Bacterial oxygenases are heavily represented in the UM-BBD; they are known to have broad substrate specificity. A compilation of known reactions of naphthalene and toluene dioxygenases were recently added to the UM-BBD; 73 and 108 were listed respectively. In 2000 the UM-BBD is mirrored by two prestigious groups: the European Bioinformatics Institute and KEGG (the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes). Collaborations with other groups are being developed. The increased emphasis on UM-BBD enzymes is important for predicting novel metabolic pathways that might exist in nature or could be engineered. It also is important for current efforts in microbial genome annotation.

The cabildo in Peru under the Hapsburgs : a study in the origins and powers of the town council in the Viceroyalty of Peru, 1530-1700.

Bibliography: p. 285-298.

Select anti-Pelagian treatises of St. Augustine & the acts of the second council of Orange;

Mode of access: Internet.

Pictures by the old masters in the library of Christ Church, Oxford; a brief catalogue with historical and critical notes on the pictures in the collection,

With 64 illustrations.

The reorganisation of industry : papers /

"An account of proceedings at the Conference of Working-Class Associations, held in Oxford on July 21st, 22nd, and 23rd, 1916."

Preliminary reports on the IGY pendulum, gravimeter and seismological programs at the University of Wisconsin.

Mode of access: Internet.

State conference on Kentucky problems held at University of Kentucky, Lexington, March 4-5, 1919. Program and addresses.

This conference was called by the Kentucky Council of defense to consider various matters arising out of the war and Kentucky's relation to them. cf. p. [5].

A ballad in macaronic Latin, entitled Rustica descriptio visitations fanaticae, being a country clergyman's tragi-comical lament upon revisiting Oxford after the root-and-branch reform of 1648, 1649.

Rev. Vaughan Thomas was editor and translator.

Catalogue of a loan exhibition of early scientific instruments in Oxford. Opened by Sir William Osler after his presidential address to the Classical association on 16 May, 1919.

Mode of access: Internet.

A history of the Daubeny laboratory, Magdalen college, Oxford. To which is appended a list of the writings of Dr. Daubeny, and a register of names of persons who have attended the chemical lectures of Dr. Daubeny from 1822 to 1867, as well as of those who have received instruction in the laboratory up to the present time.

Mode of access: Internet.

University of Illinois; survey report

Mode of access: Internet.

The adventures of Downy V. Green : Rhodes scholar at Oxford /

Murray file copy no. 251.

Oxford prize poems.: With illustrations, historical and descriptive, of the Newdigate poems, from the best authorities, and eighteen engravings by Fisher.

Mode of access: Internet.

The Oxford university and city guide, on a new plan:

Mode of access: Internet.

Proposals for a community college submitted ... to the board of trustees of the State University of New York.

1. Orange County Board of Supervisors.--2. City of Jamestown Common Council.