Sentences with phrase «like gene mapping»

Like gene mapping, part of the reason for this evolution is the dramatic advances in information technology in recent years.

Not exact matches

By tracking activity in almost all the genes of a free - living archaeon — which, like a bacterium, is a prokaryote — Bonneau was recently able to piece together how the genes affected one another's expression, enabling him to map the organism's «control circuit» as if it were a machine.

Finally, the authors addressed two major challenges for any study that generates large data - sets of individual genes and proteins in model organisms like yeast: How to assemble the data into coherent maps?

«Interactomes like this one make the whole debate of genes versus the environment a lot more sophisticated,» adds Vidal, who was not involved in the current study and who mapped a network involved in breast cancer susceptibility in 2007.

And the shared map implies that genes for important characteristics, such as disease resistance, photoperiodism, drought tolerance, storage proteins and the like, can be plucked direct from one genome and applied in another.

«First, there is no single road map to eusociality — the complex, cooperative social system in which animals behave more like superorganisms than individuals fending for themselves,» said Gene Robinson, a lead on the study who is a professor of entomology and director of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois.

WHAT HE»S DOING NOW: ISB focuses on «big science» projects like mapping the genes of families prone to prostate cancer.

The new dependency data complement the Dependency Map team's ongoing efforts to use functional genomic technologies like CRISPR and RNA interference (RNAi) to locate vulnerabilities that arise within cancer cells as they compensate for the loss of critical genes due to mutations or expression changes.

More recently, geneticists like Bohlender have begun mapping modern man's genes and comparing them to what we know of those who preceded us.

Their objective is to map the interactions among the 65 proteins those genes code for and chart the networks between proteins, like drawing constellations out of stars in the sky.