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Grammatical analysis used in genome research
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London UK (RSC): The need for methods to make sense of the data flooding in from genomes and related protein sequences is more urgent than ever, says Mario Gimona, a molecular biologist at the Consorzio Mario Negri Sud. Linguistic analysis could replace the ambiguous protein annotation systems currently on offer.
The analogy between proteins and language starts out simply enough, as both sequences and sentences are made up of letters representing the 20 amino acids in the first case and various sounds in the second. Linguistic analysis of genes has been performed for decades, with similar considerations for proteins following later.
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