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N-acetyl-D-neuraminic acid is an important representative of a distinct class of aminosugar compounds-neuraminic acid, and has potential commercial value.
Software design is actually a multistep process that focuses on three distinct attributes of the program: data structure, software architecture, and pro-caesural detail.