By Ganapati Mudur

Indian physicist Ram Ramas- wamy had spent a decade looking for order in complexity, seeking patterns in fractals, sand piles, and languages, when biologist Alok Bhattacharya coaxed him to train his sights on genomes. The result of efforts by the researchers at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi is software that can pick out genes in any genome without prior information about the organism’s genomic structure.