New tool mines scientific texts for fusion protein facts
(PHYSorg.com Biology)

A new computational tool called ProtFus screens scientific literature to validate predictions about the activity of fusion proteins-proteins encoded by the joining of two genes that previously encoded two separate proteins. Somnath Tagore in the Frenkel-Morgenstern Lab at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and colleagues present ProtFus in PLOS Computational Biology.