Changes to Management Committee and Newsletter Editorship Peter Hendriks is now Director of the CRLC,  replacing Cynthia Allen after two terms in this role. Cynthia will take over the editorship of The Chameleon. Thanks to outgoing editor Harold Koch for his fine work on past editions and for coediting this edition.

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BLAST, but in many cases is much more sensitive to weak but biologically relevant sequence similarities. PSI-BLAST is used to uncover several new and interesting members of the BRCT superfamily.

We examine properties of residual-based tests for the null of no cointegration for dynamic panels in which both the short-run dynamics and the long-run slope coefficients are permitted to be heterogeneous across individual members of the panel+ The tests also allow for individual heterogeneous

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Pept and on sequences from selected metage-nomics projects. Pfam is available on the web from the consortium members using a new, consistent and improved website design in the UK

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