werner@aecom.YU.EDU (Craig Werner) (03/26/88)
In article <3214@phri.UUCP>, roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes: > > Is there an unambigious way to parse the name of the restriction > enzyme "BstXI"? The nomenclature is well defined (in an old article by Novick, I believe). It goes something like First Letter from Genus Next Two from Species Single Letter (this is bent a bit) from strain Roman Number for order of discovery Ergo: EcoRI from E coli R plasmid I HindIII Haemophilus influenza type d III BstXI Bacillus steat.... strain X I From the relaxed rules: Sau3AI S. au..... strain 3A I (In theory, there could be a Sau3AIII) Tth111I T. th..... strain 111 I -- Craig Werner (future MD/PhD, 3.5 years down, 3.5 to go) werner@aecom.YU.EDU -- Albert Einstein College of Medicine (1935-14E Eastchester Rd., Bronx NY 10461, 212-931-2517) "I just won't sleep, that's all."