Rethinking Junk DNA: What Is 98 Percent of the Genome Hiding?

While next-generation sequencing and mass spectrometry approaches helped researchers assign protein-coding genes to certain parts of the genome, “there [were] a lot of other parts of datasets that [we] didn’t know how to make sense of,” said Sudhakaran Prabakaran, a systems and computational biologist at Northeastern University. The post Rethinking Junk DNA: What Is 98 Percent of the Genome Hiding? appeared first on Northeastern Global News .