Improved method for comparing genomes as well as written text
Date: 16.2.2009
Taking a hint from the text comparison methods used to detect plagiarism in books, college papers and computer programs, University of California, Berkeley, researchers have developed an improved method for comparing whole genome sequences.
With nearly a thousand **genomes** partly or fully sequenced, scientists are jumping on comparative **genomics** as a way to construct evolutionary trees, trace disease susceptibility in populations, and even track down people's ancestry.
To date, the most common techniques have relied on comparing a limited number of highly conserved genes - no more than a couple dozen - in organisms that have all these **genes** in common.
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