does any one know how the molecular biologists identify genes in sequence of DNA?asap please?

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does any one know how the molecular biologists identify genes in sequence of DNA?asap please?

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2007-01-08 14:55:18 · 1 answers · asked by doggy lover 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology

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They typically use a computer program that goes through the sequence and picks out start and stop codons in all three reading frames. The program then sorts them, looking for long stretches between start and stop codons that could be a gene coding a protein of reasonable size.

2007-01-09 02:03:47 · answer #1 · answered by floundering penguins 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋