DNAprint Genomics (DNAG)

[mingwan0]

Nik, agree that the important thing is that all possibilities are under consideration. I am always suspicious about concepts like "junk DNA" - underlying mechanisms usually tend to be simple, and such a degree of non-functionality or redundancy seems to be "wrong". BTW, here are some examples of "active" things (transposons or mobile DNA elements) that hint at other possible roles for non-coding DNA:

http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/03/pr0303.htm

http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/News_Releases/june97/dna.html

http://dragon.zoo.utoronto.ca/~J02T0301A/Mobile.html

There are also some interesting papers here:

http://instruct.uwo.ca/biology/281b/Tomppt/Notes/

for instance:

http://instruct.uwo.ca/biology/281b/Tomppt/Notes/Class9.pdf