Board Thread:Fossil Fuels/@comment-3213993-20160127052118

A team of scientists at Stanford University has created a computational method of predicting the function of conserved non-coding elements in the genome. In the paper,the scientists used this method on a set of placental mammal genomes and found predicted regulatory elements for various traits, often located near a gene involved in those traits. This will be very useful for finding the links between genotype and phenotype, which is needed to create dinosaur facsimiles. 