The invention provides isolated nucleic acid compounds encoding a glycosyltransferase enzyme of Amycolatopsis orientalis. Such profiles can be produced essentially from all types of wood of coniferous trees and wood of deciduous trees, including low-grade wood of coniferous trees, which can be obtained in large quantities in forestry. Information is stored relating to customers, one or more utilities relating to the customer, as well as a variety of rules that may be applied by the utilities for the customers, depending on various situations, in determining the utility information and the costs thereof.