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11 - Computer Science and Informatics
University of Warwick
Evolutionary analysis of regulatory sequences (EARS) in plants
<12> In one of the leading plant sciences journals, this paper documents the application of novel string algorithms to the identification of regulatory sequences within non-coding regions of DNA, an essential step towards elucidation of gene networks. Flagel and Blackman’s (Duke U.) analysis of the first 10 years of plant-genome sequencing reports that: "[this paper's approach] will substantially enhance our power to functionally annotate the coding and regulatory portions of the genome". A follow-up paper by Tiskin et al. (Plant Cell, 24, 3949-3965) received worldwide publicity owing to these new techniques’ potential to accelerate research into crop science and food security.