الكاتب: Multiple References

The field of genetics continues to advance at an astounding pace, marked by numerous extraordinary achievements in recent years. In just the past ten years, the genomic sequence of a multitude of organisms, from archaebacteria to large eukaryotes, has been determined and in many cases, comparatively analyzed in remarkable detail. Expressed sequence tags are being used for the detection of new genes and for genome annotation. DNA microarray technology has taken the study of gene expression and genetic variation to a global, genome-wide scale. Hundreds of new genes and microbial species have been identified by reconstructing the DNA sequences of entire communities of microorganisms collected in environmental samples. A wide variety of new regulatory functions have been assigned to RNA, and RNA interference has become an effective tool for creating loss of function phenotypes.