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The premise that subtraction of the MM from PM essentially serves to extract constructively the nonspecific components (cross-hybridization, noise, and so on) of the signal common to both should be reconsidered in the light of the results obtained in this study.
The liberated 32P was quantitated by a phosphomolybdate extraction assay as described previously [ 14 ] . Reactions were followed with time, and results were corrected by subtraction of the corresponding values from an enzyme-free reaction.
Recently, we supplemented the well-known SSH #(suppression subtractive hybridization) technology [ 7 8 ] with the Mirror Orientation Selection method (MOS) for eliminating background clones from SSH-generated libraries [ 9 ] . This innovative procedure allowed the application of these techniques in the subtraction of large eukaryotic genomes, including those of freshwater planarian (haploid genome size of G. tigrina is 1.4 × 10 9bp [ 10 ] ). Using the SSH-MOS combination, genomes of two different strains of G. tigrina were compared.
For the parallel time course, three zero time-point measurements were averaged before subtraction.
We propose a variation on the USM encoding and difference metric in which arithmetic operations (subtraction, maximum, and base 2 logarithm) are replaced with equivalent Boolean operations in which the values of individual terms in the above expression do not interact.