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Publication Detail
More Mouldy Data: Virtual Infection of the Human Genome
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Publication Type:Report
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Authors:Langdon WB, Arno MJ
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publication date:14/06/2011
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Place of publication:London WC1E 6BT, UK
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Report number:RN/11/14
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Abstract
The human genome sequence database contains DNA sequences very like those of mycoplasma molds. It appears such moulds infect not only molecular Biology laboratories but were picked up by experimenters from contaminated samples and inserted into GenBank as if they were human. At least one mouldy EST (Expressed Sequence Tag) has transferred from public databases to commercial tools (Affymetrix HG-U133 plus 2.0 microarrays). We report a second example (DA466599) and suggest there is a need to clean up genomic databases but fear current tools will be inadequate to catch genes which have jumped the silicon barrier.
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