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On-line Genome Browser

Posted by timothy on from the pick-up-a-date dept.

Skiron writes "I stumbled on this quite excellent project after reading an article on the BBC news site (who, for some reason never include a link and leave the reader to go ogle for it. 'The Ensembl Genome Browser - Ensembl is a joint project between EMBL - EBI and the Sanger Institute to develop a software system which produces and maintains automatic annotation on metazoan genomes. Ensembl is primarily funded by the Wellcome Trust.' A sort of DNA Wiki!"

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  1. Welcome to 1998 by QuantumG · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I wonder what other sites are considered "news" because the geeks who read the queue don't happen to know anything about the field that the site supports.

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  2. Re:Heh. by thecampbeln · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yea, this got me thinking if this was the second reason they choose "Google", as "go ogle" is a damn good one too! Maybe there's a future Windows -vs- Lindows-esque lawsuit in that one?!

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