Correspondence

Orthologs and paralogs - we need to get it right

Roy A Jensen

Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA. Department of Chemistry, City College of New York, New York, NY 10031, USA. BioScience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87544, USA

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Genome Biology 2001, 2:interactions1002.1-1002.3doi:10.1186/gb-2001-2-8-interactions1002

Published:	3 August 2001

Subject areas: Evolution, Genetics, Genome studies, Biochemistry and structural biology, Molecular biology

Abstract

A response to Homologuephobia, by Gregory A Petsko, Genome Biology 2001 2:comment1002.1-1002.2, to An apology for orthologs - or brave new memes by Eugene V Koonin, Genome Biology 2001, 2:comment1005.1-1005.2, and to Can sequence determine function? by John A Gerlt and Patricia C Babbitt, Genome Biology 2000, 1:reviews0005.1-0005.10.