Wheaton College Norton, Massachusetts
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Horizontal Transfer in Microbial Genomes

Microbes are perhaps the most promiscuous organisms on the planet, swapping sections of their DNA from one to another. This proposal seeks to apply text mining cluster and classifications techniques to detect sections of microbial genomes that may have been swapped from one microbe to another.

Academic year: 2010-2011