Abstract
The human genetic sequence database contains DNA sequences very like those of mycoplasma bacteria. It appears such bacteria infect not only molecular Biology laboratories but their genes were picked up from contaminated samples and inserted into GenBank as if they were homo sapiens. At least one mouldy EST (Expressed Sequence Tag) has transferred from online public databases on the Internet to commercial tools (Affymetrix HG-U133 plus 2.0 microarrays). We report a second example (DA466599) and suggest there is a need to clean up genomic databases but fear current tools will be inadequate to catch genes which have jumped the silicon barrier. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.
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Langdon, W. B., & Arno, M. J. (2012). In silico infection of the human genome. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 7246 LNCS, pp. 245–249). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29066-4_22
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