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Comment
. 2018 Dec 18;19(1):223.
doi: 10.1186/s13059-018-1600-4.

We simply cannot go on being so vague about 'function'

W Ford Doolittle  1
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Comment

We simply cannot go on being so vague about 'function'

W Ford Doolittle. Genome Biol. .

Abstract

Function is an onerous concept, as the recent study by Steven Salzberg and colleagues demonstrates. We should be careful and always specific in using the 'F-word'.

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