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The rapidly increasing number of sequenced genomes offers the chance to resolve longstanding questions about the evolutionary history of certain groups of organisms, to develop a better understanding of evolution, to make substantial advances in functional genomics, and to start bridging genomics and genetics. Comparative genomics is the term used today for much of the work carried out in whole-genome analysis, correctly emphasizing that the “guilt-by-association” approach used in the analysis of gene and regulatory sequences remains the fundamental tool in the analysis of whole genomes.
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Moret, B.M.E. (2011). Phylogenetic Analysis of Whole Genomes. In: Chen, J., Wang, J., Zelikovsky, A. (eds) Bioinformatics Research and Applications. ISBRA 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6674. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21260-4_3
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