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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A kind of beer made throughout central and eastern Africa.

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Examples

  • Accordingly the chief brought a huge basket of "pombe," the native beer, and another of "nsima," or porridge, and a pot of cooked meat; to these were added a large basket of maize.

    The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 David Livingstone 1843

  • I also arrived at a time when the Krogan lab, more specifically Assen Roguev (twitter feed), has been working to develop genetic interaction assays for S. pombe (Roguev A 2007).

    Archive 2009-06-01 Pedro Beltrao 2009

  • Look into possibility of making condoms available at bars, pombe clubs, and guesthouse

    Archive 2009-02-01 laura b 2009

  • I also arrived at a time when the Krogan lab, more specifically Assen Roguev (twitter feed), has been working to develop genetic interaction assays for S. pombe (Roguev A 2007).

    Comparative analysis of phosphoproteins in yeast species Pedro Beltrao 2009

  • Look into possibility of making condoms available at bars, pombe clubs, and guesthouse

    What am I doing here? laura b 2009

  • Finally we compiled recently published genetic interaction data for S. pombe (from Assen Roguev's work) and for S. cerevisiae (from Dorothea Fiedler's work) in addition to some novel genetic data produced for this work.

    Comparative analysis of phosphoproteins in yeast species Pedro Beltrao 2009

  • The conservation was defined based on an alignment window of +/- 10AAs of S. cerevisiae proteins against orthologs in C. albicans, S. pombe, D. melanogaster and H. sapiens.

    Translationally optimal codons do not appear to significantly associate with phosphorylation sites Pedro Beltrao 2009

  • Finally we compiled recently published genetic interaction data for S. pombe (from Assen Roguev's work) and for S. cerevisiae (from Dorothea Fiedler's work) in addition to some novel genetic data produced for this work.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Pedro Beltrao 2009

  • The conservation was defined based on an alignment window of +/- 10AAs of S. cerevisiae proteins against orthologs in C. albicans, S. pombe, D. melanogaster and H. sapiens.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Pedro Beltrao 2009

  • I wrote about him recently in relation to the ‘bar’ that he runs out of the house - making pombe ya kimea, or local millet beer.

    Archive 2006-02-01 jen 2006

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