Month: October 1999

The Dictyostelium discoideum genome project has been making progress. In Nature 401 from 30 Sept 99 page 440 the current status is given as “Over two-fold coverage of the 34 Mb genome is now available and there is already information on at least 90% of the genes.” I have searched the Jena web Blast server… Read More

A new human CYP family CYP39A is now represented by a complete sequence. This was assembled over several days by using every trick in the book to find all the pieces. I suspect this will be an important P450, with an ancient history, probably acting on sterols. The gene is also found as ESTs in… Read More