Sentences with phrase «features of the genome»

Furthermore, it becomes increasingly evident that genome architecture varies significantly in individual cells and that many known features of genome folding, such as partitioning of chromosomes into topologically - associating domains, represent a population average.

This will include a summary detailing the data that have been generated and key features of the genome identified from genomic assembly and clone mapping / sequencing.

Not exact matches

A few that pop to mind are the Coconino Sandstone, the meandering / lateral channels in the Grand Canyon, the progressive order of the fossil record (complete with a pre-hominid through hominid progression), forms which bear features bridging the specially - created kinds (i.e. fish with tetrapod features, reptiles with mammalian features, reptiles with avian features, etc), the presence of anomalous morphological / genetic features (e.g. the recurrent laryngeal nerve, male nip - ples, the presence of a defunct gene for egg - yolk production in our own placental mammal genomes), etc, etc..

Perhaps the most significant distinction between evolution and ID / creationism is evolution's ability to explain poor design features, e.g. male nip - ples, the recurrent laryngeal nerve, the presence / location of endogenous retroviruses, and (one of my personal favorites) the presence of a defunct gene for egg yolk protein in our placental mammal genomes.

So as kids explore the interactive features of the exhibit, like building their own dinosaur or exploring computerized genome projects, they'll pick up some knowledge about DNA, species extinction and more.

Through detailed genome comparisons, sequence - alignment algorithms and other bioinformatics tools run on Los Alamos computers, the Los Alamos team identified features that differentiate among F. tularensis and other novel clinical and environmental Francisella isolates, providing a knowledge base for comparison of new sequences from clinical or environmental surveys.

In Lausanne, the researchers carried out a detailed study of the genome and the «phenome» (the set of all phenotypes or clinical features) of a family of mice composed by 183 members.

Analysis of the 1,042,519 — base pair Chlamydia trachomatis genome revealed unexpected features related to the complex biology of chlamydiae.

Also online, an interactive feature including informational graphics, video clips, and more, as well as accompanying Web resources, explore how plant genome research is contributing to our understanding of plant biology and evolution and leading to tangible benefits for society.

To identify signs of a self - domestication process in humans, researchers made a list of genes associated with domestication features in humans, out of the comparison with the genome in Neanderthals and Denisovans, extinct human species.

They live inside their host's cells and have highly specialized features: They are only able to reproduce inside the host's cells, they have the smallest known genome of all organisms with a cell nucleus (eukaryotes) and they posses no mitochondria of their own (the cell's power plant).

The observational study published in Genome Biology utilized publicly available and unpublished data sets to find 2,147 vlincRNAs that cover 10 percent of the human genome, suggesting that their production is a common, yet undiscovered, feature of humaGenome Biology utilized publicly available and unpublished data sets to find 2,147 vlincRNAs that cover 10 percent of the human genome, suggesting that their production is a common, yet undiscovered, feature of humagenome, suggesting that their production is a common, yet undiscovered, feature of human DNA.

Epiviz implements multiple visualization methods for location - based data (such as genomic regions of interest) and feature - based data (such as gene expression), using interactive data visualization techniques not available in web - based genome browsers.

«A striking feature of the phylogenetic tree based on S. aureus whole genome sequencing was the presence of multiple distinct clades,» said senior author Sharon Peacock from the University of Cambridge and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

A closer look at the transcriptome — all the parts of the genome that are actively expressed at a given time — confirmed that NFAT, when acting on its own, induces a second transcriptional program that has many of the characteristic features of CD8 T cell exhaustion.

Early comparative studies threw conserved regulatory regions, RNA genes, and other features into relief, bringing meaning to much of our genome, including the 98 % that lies outside protein - coding regions.

«ID «ing features of flu virus genome may help target surveillance for pandemic flu: Findings may help health experts know which strains to watch.»

«It's essential to have all of the great ape genomes in order to understand the features of our own genome that make humans unique,» says Gregory Wray, an evolutionary biologist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, who was not involved in the study.

«It has long been speculated that hair features could have been influenced by some form of selection, such as natural or sexual selection, and we found statistical evidence in the genome supporting that view,» added Dr Adhikari.

With colleagues, he used common features in the genomes of 36 modern mammals to sketch out the genome of the creature from which they descended.

Using this method, features of genomic organization including compartments, topologically associating domains (TADs) and chromatin loops were detected in single cells when averaged over the genome.

Now, researchers writing in the Cell Press journal Cell Reports on February 12th have sequenced the complete genome of one wild - caught individual, and they say that it has already told them more than they had anticipated about the butterflies and some of their most intriguing features.

Indeed, in an exhaustive search, they identified parallel features in the genomes of a more mysterious subterranean group of archaea known as nanoarchaea.

While the octopus genome resembles those of other marine invertebrates in many respects, it also revealed unexpected features that are key to understanding the origin and function of its unique nervous system.

This snippet of the human genome, color coded for major features, comes from a beach - towel - sized poster that represents all 2.9 billion bases.

A team of scientists announced that they have sequenced the genome of the common soil bacterium Streptomyces coelicolor — the largest microbial genome to date — unearthing both promising and surprising genomic features.

Zhao and colleagues examined the ability of the CRISPR - Cas system, a set of molecules borrowed from a form of immune system in bacteria (CRISPR stands for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, describing a feature of this system in bacterial genomes).

This «chromosomal disorder» is a key feature of the gibbon genome and has probably occurred after their secession from the ancestral line of the apes and humans.

New work published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by lead authors Michael Raissig and Emily Abrash features a collaboration born at Carnegie's Department of Plant Biology between Bergmann and John Vogel (now at the Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute) who met as postdocs at Carnegie.

From this we compared the genomic distributions of our hotspots to the genomic distribution of various features associated with genome evolution and genes that participate in particular biological processes.

The researchers uncovered a variety of features in the cichlid genome that enabled the fishes to thrive in new habitats and ecological niches within the Great Lakes of East Africa.

After the sections of DNA sequence have been assembled into a complete genome sequence we need to identify where the genes and key features are, but how do we do this?

«It shares the structure and many features of the human genome; many human proteins function just as well in fruit flies.

Another interesting feature in their genomes is the abundance of transposable elements, «jumping genes» that can move to different parts of the genome to cause mutations or supply new elements to protein - coding genes.

Compared with the ancestral lineage, the East African cichlid genomes possess: an excess of gene duplications; alterations in regulatory, non-protein-coding elements in the genome; accelerated evolution of protein - coding elements, especially in genes for pigmentation; and other distinct features that affect gene expression, such as insertions of transposable elements and regulation by novel microRNAs.

Comparing humans and mice has the potential to reveal key features of mammalian biology, and more insights will emerge as more genomes are completed.

Henk Stunnenberg, leader of one of the research groups that carried out the study and coordinator of both Heroic and the recently started High Impact Project BLUEPRINT, said: «The epigenetic make - up - a layer of regulatory instructions on top of the genome - of the pure embryonic stem cells shows remarkable and unexpected features, in particular with respect to developmental genes.

Genome mining of Streptomyces scabrisporus NF3 reveals symbiotic features including genes related to plant interactions.

Additional genome features include an abundance of tandemly repeated transfer - RNA - containing arrays, which may have a structural function in the genome.

Thus, we've established the toolbox of a genome sequence and a methodology to transform Sciara, so the time is now ripe for the scientific community to study all the unique features of Sciara.

One aim of the sequencing project was to learn from the genome's current features how bread wheat has evolved since its domestication.

Another distinctive genetic feature of mucosal melanoma is its high rate of copy number and structural variants, demonstrated both by array - based comparative genomic hybridization and whole - genome sequencing.

In addition to finding vaccine candidates, «the most striking feature of N. meningitidis from a genome perspective is that there are more contingency genes than any other bacterium or organism studied so far,» says Hervé Tettelin, leader of the N. meningitidis sequencing project at TIGR.

To mark this historic accomplishment, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and the Department of Energy (DOE) are holding a landmark scientific symposium on April 14 - 15 that will feature some of the biggest names in genetics of the past 50 years including: James Watson, Francis Collins, Marshall Nirenberg and Stanley Cohen.

Taxonomically - restricted genes, especially those that seem to have arisen de novo from non-coding sequence [50]--[55], are likely more crucial to organismal fitness than previously recognized [56], and it is becoming clear that these genes may be a common feature of many genomes [38], [57], [58].

The short generation time and relatively compact genome of Arabidopsis make it an ideal model system for understanding numerous features of plant biology, including ones that are of great pharmaceutical or agricultural value.

When turned on, this feature of the Unlocking Life's Code website will highlight words on the page that are found in the National Human Genome Research Institute's Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms.

The archive sites will allow researchers to access data from old releases via our web - based tools, and additionally will be able to display track hubs containing alignments and features located on older versions of genome assemblies that have since been upgraded in the live site.

The designer features of Sc2.0 plus the international consortium of research scientists now working together to build the Sc2.0 genome will be described.

Perhaps the most striking feature is the extent to which individual genes and entire blocks of chromosomal regions have been duplicated in the Arabidopsis genome.