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Bioinformatics and politics have a BLAST?

September 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Jonathan Eisen, professor at UC Davis and Academic Editor in Chief of PLoS, wrote an interesting entry in his blog: “Tracing the evolutionary history of Sarah Palin: links to a parasitic nematode and the pathogenic fungus Botryotinia fuckeliana“.

It is always fun to see unique application of sequence databases and tools. Dr. Eisen also mentioned looking [...]

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