HHMI News: New Functional Atlas Gives the 411 on Gene Partners

"Sometimes it helps to have a 'cheat sheet' when you are working on a problem as difficult as deciphering the relationships among hundreds of thousands of genes. At least that's the idea behind a powerful new technique developed by Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers to analyze how genes function together inside cells. "The new approach is called epistatic miniarray profiles (E-MAP). The scientists who developed it - HHMI investigator Jonathan S. Weissman, HHMI postdoctoral fellow Sean Collins, and colleague Nevan Krogan, who are all at the University of California, San Francisco - have used E-MAP to unravel a key process that prevents DNA damage during cellular replication." Story continues on the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research News website. Related Links: New Functional Atlas Gives the 411 on Gene Partners Research News, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, February 21, 2007 Proteomics Advance: Scientists Determine Identity, Cell Locale and Quantity of Nearly All Proteins in an Organism UCSF News Release, October 15, 2003 A Physical Interactome Map of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Weissman Lab