Mbocayá or Paraguay cocopalm—An Important Source of Oil

The pulp and kernel oils from the fruit of this palm, exceedingly abundant in Paraguay, have long been used locally in the manufacture of soap. Kernels were formerly exported to Europe but now are entirely crushed in Paraguay and only the oil exported, principally to Argentina which normally takes 50 to 75% of the production.     

A relational database for sequence-specific protein NMR data

Summary A protein NMR database has been designed and is being implemented. The database is intended to contain solution NMR results from proteins and peptides (larger than 12 residues). A relational database format has been chosen that indexes data by: primary journal citation, molecular species, sequence-related and atom-specific assignments, and experimental conditions. At present, all data are entered from the primary refereed literature. Examples are given of sample queries to the database. Possible distribution formats are discussed.