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Is your “gene of interest” interesting?
Author(s) -
Kiefer Julie C.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
developmental dynamics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.634
H-Index - 141
eISSN - 1097-0177
pISSN - 1058-8388
DOI - 10.1002/dvdy.21304
Subject(s) - biology , the internet , nothing , principal (computer security) , gene , model organism , world wide web , data science , database , computational biology , computer science , genetics , philosophy , epistemology , operating system
Has a large‐scale screen turned up a potential gene‐of‐interest that you know nothing about? Your computer is a portal to a wealth of information that can save you valuable time and resources. Freely available data can help to determine whether a particular gene is worthy of further research, and what direction that research should take. Presented here are approaches to mining the Internet, including searching popular model organism databases. The primer covers two typical scenarios: the gene of interest is well characterized, or mostly uncharacterized. Also featured are interviews with Monte Westerfield, PhD, Director of the Zebrafish Information Network (ZFIN) online database, and Principal Investigator of the Human Protein Reference Database (HPRD) project, Akhilesh Pandey, MD, PhD. Developmental Dynamics 236:2962–2969, 2007. © 2007 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.