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.
seg (plural segs) 1  A metal stud or plate fixed to the sole or heel of a shoe to prevent excessive wear. Also known as a blakey. ( 2 dialect) A callus, an area of hardened skin.