Applying math to biology: Software identifies disease-causing mutations in undiagnosed illnesses
Tuesday, April 22, 2014 - 12:31
in Biology & Nature
A computational tool has successfully identified diseases with unknown gene mutations in three separate cases. Sequencing the genomes of individuals or small families often produces false predictions of mutations that cause diseases. But this study shows that a new unique approach allows it to identify disease-causing genes more precisely than other computational tools.