A
Alan C. Ward
Researcher at Newcastle University
Publications - 122
Citations - 8099
Alan C. Ward is an academic researcher from Newcastle University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Artificial neural network & Adaptive control. The author has an hindex of 41, co-authored 122 publications receiving 7750 citations. Previous affiliations of Alan C. Ward include Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen & Chung-Ang University.
Papers
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Report of the ad hoc committee for the re-evaluation of the species definition in bacteriology.
Erko Stackebrandt,Wilhelm Frederiksen,George M. Garrity,Patrick A. D. Grimont,Peter Kämpfer,Martin C. J. Maiden,Xavier Nesme,Ramon Rosselló-Móra,Jean Swings,Hans G Trüper,Luc Vauterin,Alan C. Ward,William B. Whitman +12 more
TL;DR: An ad hoc committee for the re-evaluation of the species definition in bacteriology met in Gent, Belgium, in February 2002 and made various recommendations regarding the species definitions in the light of developments in methodologies available to systematists.
Journal ArticleDOI
Search and Discovery Strategies for Biotechnology: the Paradigm Shift
TL;DR: This review examines the paradigm shift from traditional biology to bioinformatics that is revolutionizing exploitable biology and reinforces the view that innovative microbiology is essential for releasing the potential of microbial diversity for biotechnology penetration throughout industry.
Journal ArticleDOI
New primers for the class Actinobacteria: application to marine and terrestrial environments.
TL;DR: The proposition that current culture-based techniques drastically underestimate the diversity of Actinobacteria in the environment is reinforced and the need to evaluate taxon-specific primers regularly is highlighted in line with improvements in databases holding 16S rDNA sequences.
Journal ArticleDOI
Salinispora arenicola gen. nov., sp. nov. and Salinispora tropica sp. nov., obligate marine actinomycetes belonging to the family Micromonosporaceae.
Luis A. Maldonado,William Fenical,Paul R. Jensen,Christopher A. Kauffman,Tracy J. Mincer,Alan C. Ward,Alan T. Bull,Michael Goodfellow +7 more
TL;DR: A taxonomic study was carried out to clarify the taxonomy of representatives of a group of marine actinomycetes previously designated MAR 1 and considered to belong to the family Micromonosporaceae, which contains two species recognized using a range of genotypic and phenotypic criteria.
Journal ArticleDOI
Abyssomicins, inhibitors of the para-aminobenzoic acid pathway produced by the marine Verrucosispora strain AB-18-032.
Julia Riedlinger,Andreas Reicke,Hans Zähner,Bernhard Krismer,Alan T. Bull,Luis A. Maldonado,Alan C. Ward,Michael Goodfellow,Bojan Bister,Daniel Bischoff,Roderich D. Süssmuth,Hans-Peter Fiedler +11 more
TL;DR: A screening method was established to detect inhibitors of the biosynthetic pathways of aromatic amino acids and para-aminobenzoic acid, the precursor of folic acid, using an agar plate diffusion assay modified as an antagonism test, and a family of three novel polycyclic polyketides named as abyssomicins was isolated from a marine strain of Verrucosispora.