A PHD student from the CSIRO and University of Queensland has developed a new software application that will allow greater accuracy in the ‘spell checking’ of genetic sequencing.

 

Lauren Bragg has completed her work, which featured in the journal Nature Methods, that is expected to assist biologists in better understanding the genetic sequences of their studies.

 

The Acacia software works similarly to a word processing spell checker, finding errors in the As, Cs, Ts and Gs that form the code of different living organisms.

 

Ms Bragg's development of Acacia is part of the field of bioinformatics, a blend of computer science, statistics and biology.