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Example sentences for: prototype

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Vitamin A (retinol) is the prototype of a class of natural and synthetic chemical compounds named the retinoids.
We defined the prototype element for each class using the optimization procedure described above, combined all the prototypes from five chromosomes in one database, and generated a final classification of the whole genome by clustering the BLAST search results of all prototypes against all.
CPT, an alkaloid that exists in nature and has been used for centuries in traditional Chinese medicine, is a prototype of a new class of anticancer drugs [ 16].
TrpEb_1 from S. typhimurium is the prototype member of a superfamily of pyridoxal phosphate (PLP)-dependent enzymes that are of remote relationship and that catalyze β-replacement and β-elimination reactions [ 28, 29, 30].
Thus in our example (Figures 1, 3, 4, 5) the prototype for class 1 is the longest repeat starting in position 77, with l = 11 and n = 2. Likewise, the prototype for class 2 is the repeat starting at position 23, and for class 3 it is the repeat starting at position 38.