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To: nigel bates who wrote (103)	2/8/2002 12:41:45 PM
From: nigel bates	Respond to of 262

Genomeweb article on same - genomeweb.com ...The researchers then repeated the screening and shuffling process and identified among that generation seven strains of the bacterium that produced up to nine times more tylosin than the initial strain. The entire process took about a year and required about 24,000 assays. By contrast, the traditional technique that Eli Lilly used to create the current commercial version of this bacterium required 20 years and roughly 1 million assays... According to the company, the same technique could be expanded from pharmaceuticals to fermentation and bioprocessing....