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Published online 26 February 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030224-3
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Phones download DNA
Scientists get genome information anytime, anywhere.
Biologists can now seize inspiration whenever it strikes, thanks to a new database that sends genetic information to mobile phones.
"I was sitting on the bus reading a paper in Nature, and I wanted to know what DNA sequences were available for the species I was looking at," says genomics researcher Björn Ursing of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.
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