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Charting ever-changing genomes

07-19-2007 · EurekAlert!

Instead of immutable proprietary software, any species' genetic information resembles open source code that is constantly tweaked and optimized to meet the users' specific needs. But which parts of the code have withstood the test of time and which parts have undergone rapid evolutionary change has been difficult to assess. An international collaboration of researchers developed a simple method to comb whole genomes for all the software fixes and security patches accumulated over time.

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