soc abbreviation

[Tom Anderson]

On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Ricardo wrote:

> Hi, does any one know what the S.O.C (from soc medium) characters stand
> for???

Super Optimal, Catabolite repression. Originally, there was SOB, the
rather hyperbolically named Super Optimal Broth, and for experiments on
catabolite repression, glucose was added, making SOC.

Both were formulated by Doug Hanahan; he explains the origin (in a quoted
email) about halfway down this page:

http://www.protocol-online.org/biology-forums/posts/10626.html

tom

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