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Letter: Letter

Published 11 July 1998

From Duncan Martin, University of Nottingham

Wouldn’t a little punctuation mark to separate the components be clearer?
Your AmidoPhosphoRibosylTransferase would become
amido-phospho-ribosyl-transferase. This is not only even easier to read but also
consistent with standard English usage.

Issue no. 2142 published 11 July 1998

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