Scientists crack 40-year-old DNA puzzle and point to 'hot soup' at the origin of life
...ters. But why there should be 64 words in the DNA dictionary which translate into just 20 amino acids, and why a process that is more complex than it needs to be should have evolved in the first place, has puzzled scientists for the last 40 years. Dozens of scientists have suggested theories to solve the puzz...Building a protein name dictionary from full text: a machine learning term extraction approach
...terial. We use the method to create a protein name dictionary from a set of 80,528 full text articles. Only 8.3% of the names in this dictionary match SwissProt description lines. We assess the quality of the dictionary by studying its protein n......he genes from their own biological samples to this dictionary of normal expression. "Genes identified by the database as abnormally active in a particular disease could become potential targets, guiding researchers to better candidates for new drug therapies, immune-based vaccine treatments, and potential bioma...