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Published online 11 January 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010111-7
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First set of bacterial proteins mapped
Researchers are making sense of the complex world encoded in a bacterial genome.
The headlines may be full of genomes, but the really juicy information lies in the proteins that these monotonous sequences of letters encode. Understanding how such proteins interact, for example, may offer the best chance of fighting some diseases.
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