October 1, 2007

How to use common bioinformatic tools to compare two Neandertal sequences

I really want the following paper that was just published in Nature, “Neanderthals in central Asia and Siberia.” The paper seems really interesting. Why? It pushes how far east Neandertals ventured, by using sequence comparisons. From the abstract,
“we determined mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences from hominid remains found in Uzbekistan and in the Altai region of [...]

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