A long-held assumption confirmed: We can learn a lot from other species' genes
Thursday, May 17, 2012 - 16:30
in Biology & Nature
Researchers at the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute have confirmed the long-held belief that studying the genes we share with other animals is useful. The study, published today in the open access journal PLoS Computational Biology, shows how bioinformatics makes it possible to test the fundamental principles on which life science is built.
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