Monday, December 06, 2010

Help cure diseases :D

Phylo is an elegant solution to a complex problem of computing Multiple Sequence Alignments. By simply playing the game, you are optimizing the ancestral sequence. Computers that can do this are expensive and don't always get the most optimized solution so this game is ideal for it. All the information is put into a database that is available for researchers to use.

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All of this is thanks to McGill University in Canada. Hurray Canada!

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