Preparing for the flood: evolutionary biology in the age of genomics.
Genome sequencing projects will soon provide a large number of gene sequences from a wide variety of species. Although the impetus of these genome projects involves biotechnology rather than evolutionary biology, several substantial evolutionary problems may potentially be addressed using genomic data.
James Brown is at SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, Bioinformatics Group, 709 Swedeland Road, PO Box 1539, King of Prussia, PA 19406, USA.
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