Free Program Predicts How Troublesome a Genetic Mutation Is 34
smoothjazz writes "Researchers describe a new, freely available Web-based program called Spliceman for predicting whether genetic mutations are likely to disrupt the splicing of messenger RNA, potentially leading to disease. From the article: 'Spliceman makes its predictions about mutations by calculating that distance. It has successfully predicted the known effect of many mutations.
The software has genomic information about 11 species: humans, chimpanzees, rhesus monkeys, mice, rats, dogs, cats, chickens, guinea pigs, frogs, and zebra fish.'"
static code analysis tool (Score:5, Interesting)
Rephrased, its a static code analysis tool for mRNA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tools_for_static_code_analysis [wikipedia.org]
Now taking bets on 10:1 odds that after posting this, some joker adds spliceman to the wiki page. Frankly it probably does belong there.
Yes, I am one of "those guys" who trys to make my perl scripts Perl::Critic compliant, in addition to running them thru perltidy. The closest thing I know of for Ruby is "laser" and I don't know a good reformatting tool for Ruby.
Superpowers (Score:0, Interesting)
How long does the simulation have to run before it predicts super powers?
Re:static code analysis tool (Score:4, Interesting)