From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 28 2002 - 16:35:58 MST
Robert Bradbury wrote:
>
> Turns out that 106 out of 141 transcription factors in yeast
> seem to regulate ~2300 genes. About an average of 20 genes
> being regulated per transcription factor. What is interesting
> is that they have developed the technology such that they
> have decreased the time for working out what a single transcription
> factor regulates from 300 researcher-years to 1 week (a
> speedup of more than 15,000x). It allows them to tackle
> the human genome which has ~1700 transcription factors.
>
> http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/ExternalInfo/oipa/pr2002/pr070102.pdf
>
> This suggests (to me) that by 2005ish we are going to have a fairly
> good understanding of how simple eukaryotic cells actually work.
### THE SINGULARITY IS COMING!
Prepare! Don't procrastinate! Penitentiagite!
The Beginning is near!
(OK, I hope the above sounds sufficiently crazy to be immediately identified
as a joke)
The article Robert quoted is one of the coolest things I have seen in a
couple of years.
Rafal
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