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and blat?

maximilianh — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 10:08:54 -0400

yes and I wonder no one mentioned blat? As far as I remember, blat and ssaha are not too different, ssaha is even openly copying one if its main speed-ups from blat (storing 11mers in memory)...

SSAHA has been around for a

Greg — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 06:47:33 -0500

SSAHA has been around for a while now (2001), I'm curious why all the fuss now ? Is it the searchable trace archive ? If so, why would you want to search the trace archive and not the assembled genomes ? I'm missing something obvious...

On the topic of Google, they have been nominated for a Captain Hook Award (Bio Piracy). The justification is here:

For teaming up with J. Craig Venter to create a searchable online database of all the genes on the planet so that individuals and pharmaceutical companies alike can 'google' our genes - one day bringing the tools of biopiracy online.

Read the rest here. Of course Google + Venter == Pure Evil. Seriously, I doubt whether this will amount to anything real, there is a world of difference between searching HTML and DNA.

Googling the Genome with TraceSearch

Duncan — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:26:26 -0500

The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute news feed often has interesting stories that are well written by a