milosav@SPICA.UCSC.EDU (Aleksandar Milosavljevic) (02/14/91)
I would like to argue in support of sequencing complete genomes, including the "junk". Without the 1000 or so Alu sequences available in Genbank we [1] could not have discovered that Alu sequences are pseudogenes retroposed from a small set of retropositionally active Alu source genes. -Aleksandar Milosavljevic [1] Jurka, J. and Milosavljevic, A., Reconstruction and Analysis of Human Alu Genes, J Mol Evol (1991) 32:105-121