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Phylogeny capitulates to ontology

Sun, 2011-11-06 09:41 -- John Hawks

I was genome browsing this morning and noticed something strange going on at UCSC.

Whoa, I thought! What's Denisova doing there listed with the yeasts? Just an accident of how they have categorized, of course -- it's a catch-all category because they have really few human-specific datasets. Err...

Hey! Perfectly innocent, I'm sure...

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