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13 June 2006
In this issue...
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G-protein coupled receptors but lack calcium currents and presynaptic SNAP-25 protein, indicating that they do not use conventional synapses to relay taste stimuli.
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BioMed Central on location
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BioMed Central will be exhibiting at the following conferences in June. Please come and visit us at our booth.
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New articles in Journal of Biology
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The latest collection of articles in Journal of Biology is now available to view free of charge
on the Journal of Biology website. In the research article, Mike Tyers
and colleagues describe a new literature-based yeast database that they have developed. The database documents
over 33,000 biological interactions, manually curated from the primary literature, and provides an invaluable
resource to benchmark high-throughput methods in the study of complex networks.
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Research article 
Comprehensive curation and analysis of global interaction networks in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Teresa Reguly, Ashton Breitkreutz, Lorrie Boucher, Bobby-Joe Breitkreutz, Gary C Hon, Chad L Myers, Ainslie Parsons, Helena Friesen, Rose Oughtred, Amy Tong, Chris Stark, Yuen Ho, David Botstein, Brenda Andrews,
Charles Boone, Olga G Troyanskya, Trey Ideker, Kara Dolinski, Nizar N Batada and Mike Tyers
Journal of Biology 2006, 5:11 (8 June 2006)
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Minireview 
The interaction map of yeast: terra incognita?
Joe Mellor and Charles DeLisi
Journal of Biology 2006, 5:10 (8 June 2006)
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A free commentary from Critical care
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Commentary
Drotrecogin alfa (activated): does current evidence support treatment for any patients with severe sepsis?
Jan O Friedrich, Neill KJ Adhikari and Maureen O Meade
Critical Care 2006, 10:145(2 June 2006)
Drotrecogin alfa is recommended for patients with severe sepsis to reduce mortality, however, two large trials have provided inconsistent results regarding its survival benefits.
In this article, Friedrich et al. discuss the evidence and suggest methodological explanations for the discrepant results.
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Faculty of 1000 -- Hidden Jewels
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Faculty of 1000 Biology - Hidden Jewel: "A landmark paper reporting the first genetic analysis of a
neuroendocrine circuit influencing development. A key finding is that some developmental decisions are regulated by different timers that can be independently altered."
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given 1 week apart, in the treatment of complicated skin and skin structure infections and the equivalence of this treatment regimen to linezolid given twice daily for 14 days."
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