Biotechnology innovation

We will not enlarge on the environment potential of biotechnology any further at this stage. We will, however, raise some environmental issues in later section of this text If you would like to learn more, we recommend the BIOTOL text "Biotechnological Innovations in Environmental and Eneigy Management". 

Before we leave tire chemical transformation of these compounds we draw your attention to the fact that these transformations may be of value not only to produce desirable compounds, but also as a means of removing undesirable materials from the environment. This aspect is examined in the BIOTOL text "Biotechnological Innovations in Energy and Environmental Management". 

Biotechnological Innovations in Crop Improvement Biotechnological Innovations in Animal Productivity... 

Voragen, A.G.J. and van den Broek, L.A.M. (1991) Fmit juices. In Biotechnological innovations in food processing, 187-210. Oxford Butterworth-Heinemarm. 

In general, any new and non-obvious biotechnological innovation that leads to an industrially useful product or process is patentable unless it is specifically excluded from patentabihty by law. Thus, a novel microorganism as polynucleotide is potentially patentable a novel protein or peptide is potentially patentable a novel method of preparing a known protein or peptide is potentially patentable and a new use for a known microorganism polynucleotide, protein or peptide is potentially patentable. 

A third example may be the quantification of complexity for biological sequences. This area has, of course, been widely investigated by many laboratories. Most closely related to our work is that being done at the National Center for Biotechnology Innovation at NIH. There, Wan and Woot-ton developed a compositional complexity measure for biological sequences in proteins and nucleotide sequences in terms of longest paths on the YDL (Wan and Wooton 2000). It is interesting to note... 

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