Month: December 2011
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Genome 10K ‘Alignathon’ harnesses community effort to show relationships between species
By Branwyn Wagman Anticipating the need to make sense of the glut of whole-genome data arising from the Genome 10K project, the project’s data analysis wing has announced a friendly competition to find more powerful ways to align whole genomes with each other to discover the similarities and the changes brought about by evolution. The…