Free Program Predicts How Troublesome a Genetic Mutation Is

Posted by samzenpus on Monday March 5, 2012 @06:01AM from the giant-misprinted-book-that's-hidden-inside-you dept.

smoothjazz writes "Researchers describe a new, freely available Web-based program called Spliceman for predicting whether genetic mutations are likely to disrupt the splicing of messenger RNA, potentially leading to disease. From the article: 'Spliceman makes its predictions about mutations by calculating that distance. It has successfully predicted the known effect of many mutations. The software has genomic information about 11 species: humans, chimpanzees, rhesus monkeys, mice, rats, dogs, cats, chickens, guinea pigs, frogs, and zebra fish.'"

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Inbreeding by j.+andrew+rogers · 2012-03-05 06:08 · Score: 5, Funny

This app is part of the sex education class in Arkansas!
Paging Professor Xavier by sehlat · 2012-03-05 06:14 · Score: 2, Funny

This sounds like a great tool for predicting the abilities of new recruits.
Re:ha! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-03-05 06:32 · Score: 1, Funny

So can this explain why my parents are so stupid?
I see that at least these genes were passed faithfully.