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Washington University in St. Louis

Digital Research

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The Genomics Education Partnership takes advantage of the practical advantages of bioinformatics to offer a research experience to many more students. Each horizontal line in this computer display represents a different line of evidence that could be used to argue for or against the presence of gene in a DNA sequence. The student, seeing a discrepancy, must drill down deeper to try to find its source.

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Mary Butkus/WUSTL Photos

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