Evolutionary annotation of the genome.
Open Access
- 1 December 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Molecular Biology and Evolution
- Vol. 17 (12) , 1775
- https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026277
Abstract
Areas of biomedical research are being referred to as “genomic annotation.” This follows the announcement earlier this year of the near completion of the human genome sequence. The metaphor is usually lexicographical: The genome is a dictionary filled with words whose meanings we are challenged to discover. Organisms are books, which we will be able to read once we understand the words. There is talk, in the context of model species, of “Rosetta Stones” and “Chaucerian English.”Keywords
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