Bill Browder went from being Russia's largest foreign investor to being blacklisted from that country. The CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, Browder was once a supporter of President Putin - that is until he was expelled from Russia in 2005 after being considered a threat to national security..
In bottom-up sequencing projects, a contig refers to overlapping sequence data (reads); in top-down sequencing projects, contig refers to the overlapping clones that form a physical map of the genome that is used to guide sequencing and assembly.
conic-al: cylindrical, with a flat base, tapering to a point. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith The mountain is remarkable for the perfection of its conic form. The Philippine Islands John Foreman They might be a treatise on conic sections, or a Latin Grammar, and again they might be a Book. The Bibliotaph Leon H. Vincent Abdomen lengthened, conic; the tip pointed, and not bearded.