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Comment by biomcgary

3 years ago

Organisms, yes. Individual genes within an organism may have no sequence identity to genes in other organisms (outside of what you would expect at random). See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_gene

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dekhn  3 years ago

Yes, that's what I thought. I worked with m. genitalium and we were always looking for proteins that had no homology or no existing structure (https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.20...)

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