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Biotech / Medical : Biotech Valuation
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To: Biomaven who wrote (2990)2/26/2001 4:37:42 PM
From: Pseudo Biologist  Read Replies (1) of 52153
 
Peter, regarding pseudogenes or other false cDNAs, I guess it is possible. People who do these things for real (not for pseudo) may have a better idea of how often this may occur. In the case of HGS at least, we have heard that they have made proteins out of a number of the full-length transcripts in their database. They should have a good idea of what portion of their clones can or cannot make protein.

I did read Ridley's book and found it uneven. It does have an amazing amount of information, and is certainly entertaining.

Here are reviews of some of the genome books, Ridley's included:

salon.com

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