Author Description

This software publication is a revision of the text on Yeasts by Barnett, Payne and Yarrow entitled Yeasts: Characteristics and Identification, published by the Press in 1983. Researchers can input results of tests they have carried out on a particular strain of yeast, and the program will list all the possible yeasts that would give the input results. Further, the program will produce a list of tests necessary to distinguish those yeasts on the list of possible yeasts. A comprehensive set of data of the highest quality (the authors are leading researchers in the field) has been made available in a format which allows great accessibility, is highly usable and much more quickly exploited than in alternative media. The software will be published initially in three versions, the IBM-PC, the DEC Rainbow using both MS-DOS and CP/M and the superbrain using CP/M. Each package will contain a 51/4 inch floppy disc carrying the program, written in FORTRAN, a user's manual and a leaflet of operating instructions which would be specific to each type of computer.