New Tool To Understand Evolution Of Multi-domain Genes Developed
Sunday, May 18, 2008 - 15:35
in Biology & Nature
Computational biologists have for the first time tackled the dilemma of how to study the ancestry of multidomain genes, which encode an important class of proteins called multidomain proteins that are crucial to human health. They found that standard methods for analyzing gene evolution, are critically flawed when applied to multidomain genes, mutations of which often are associated with cancers.