Slight pivot

I have been doing this blog for 2 years and just over 100 posts, and over that time I have focussed very narrowly on nitrile hydratases. Whilst they are lovely enzymes and I will continue to work on/with them, a growing interest of mine has become their cousins, the nitrilases. I now have more research effort going into nitrilases than nitrile hydratases, so from henceforth I intend to write about NHases and nitrilases. I don't think I am going to stretch to amidases, even if they are on the same operon (or whatever molecular biologists call it!). Just to add a bit of contemporary experimental data to the usual reports, I intend to report some interesting and as yet unreported results here (obviously without compromising my ability to publish them eventually) on an ongoing nitrilase discovery project as they happen.