The security firm Lookout also launched an App Genome Project database to monitor which Android and iPhone apps might engage in malicious behavior.

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GlaxoSmithkline researchers discovered the gene for Lp-PLA2 a decade ago with the help of a gene database licensed from Human Genome Sciences.

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The Personal Genome Project confirmed that 97% of the names matched those in its database if nicknames and first name variations were included.

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Love insists that Hyseq has a unique gene-finding technology that will help it discover genes that have been missed both by other gene database companies and by the U.S. government-funded Human Genome Project.

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