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Make Way for a New 'Ome

May 22, 2007

A paper published recently in PLoS Computational Biology puts the ARFome, or Alternative Reading Frame-ome, in perspective. Researchers from UCSD and Penn State's Center for Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics performed the first genome-wide scan for ARFs in mammalian genes, identifying 40 candidate genes with evolutionarily conserved overlapping coding regions.

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