New Human Genome Database Claims to Be Largest Ever Published

Dec 22, 1998

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JOHANNESBURG--The South African National Bioinformatics Institute, along with Silicon Graphics Sub-Saharan Africa, have announced the release of the first piece of what they claim may be the largest human genome coding fraction ever published. The new Sequence Tag Alignment and Consensus Knowledgebase (STACK) is aimed at shortening the drug discovery process.

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