Selecting genes for analysis using historically contingent progress: from RNA changes to protein-protein interactions
Farhaan Lalit,
Antony M Jose
Abstract:Progress in biology has generated numerous lists of genes that share some property. But, advancing from the initial implication of a set of genes in a process to understanding their roles in the process is slow and unsystematic. Here we use RNA silencing in C. elegans to illustrate a general approach for comparing lists of data accumulated by a field to prioritize genes for detailed study given limited resources. The partially subjective relationships between genes forged by both functional relatedness of the … Show more
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