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Bringing Computer Science to Biology and Genetics (arstechnica.com)
11 points by CoryOndrejka on March 25, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



The writeup seems a bit goofy and I can't find the paper with the doi. Anyone else having any luck finding the actual paper?


Not the right DOI, but this article from last year covers the same territory: http://www.pnas.org/content/106/30/12323.full

The article from the current issue that best matches the discussion in the ARS article is here: http://www.pnas.org/content/107/9/4051.abstract?sid=dfaf11ad...

Can't find the article cited at the DOI link is broken.


It seems that this is the one: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/03/11/0910200107.abst...

10.1073/pnas.0910200107

but I'm not completely sure.


The paper you link to actually seems more interesting to me than the one described in the OP. Definitely a different paper, though, unless the OP author was on crack.


Yeah, that's a different one, but you're right, it is way more interesting. What they've found is that the interactions of groups of proteins is very highly conserved, so proteins that work together towards a function in plants are still working together in humans, for example, even after millions of years of evolution. They use this to find a plant model for a neurological development disorder.




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