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Because life scientists are now using the Web not only for information gathering, but also for e-commerce, bio-portals business plans are looking more tenable.
The completion of the sequence of a second Streptomyces chromosome further establishes these soil-dwelling bacteria as nature's most prolific producers of potentially useful pharmaceuticals.
