EvoCor Search Engine Identifies Gene Relationships

A team led by Gregorio Valdez, an assistant professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, have created a search engine called EvoCor that identifies genes that are functionally linked. EvoCor is a portmanteau of "evolution" and "correlation" and connotes the idea that genes with a similar evolutionary history and expression pattern have evolved together to control a specific biological process. read more

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