BioInformatics, Genetics
Genetic Engineering:
The technique of removing, modifying, or adding genes to a DNA molecule in order to change the information it contains. By changing this information, genetic engineering changes the type or amount of proteins an organism is capable of producing, thus enabling it to make new substances or perform new functions.
From: usinfo.state.gov/journals/ites/0903/ijee/glossary.htm
A broad term to describe applications of computer technology and information science to organize, interpret, and predict biological structure and function. Bioinformatics is ususally applied in the context of analyzing DNA sequence data.
From : www.plpa.agri.umn.edu/scag1500/definitions.html
Microarray
A technology using a high-density array of nucleic acids, protein, or tissue for examining complex biological interactions simultaneously which are identified by specific location on a slide array. A scanning microscope detects the bound, labeled sample and measures the visualized probe to ascertain the activity of the genes of interest in genotyping, cellular studies, and expression analysis.
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BAMBUS
BAMBUS is the first publicly available scaffolding program. It orders and orients contigs into scaffolds based on various types of linking information. Additionally, BAMBUS allows the users to build scaffolds in a hierarchical fashion by prioritizing the order in which links are used. For more information please check out the online documentation.
BAMBUS is a program written to handle all such types of data in a generic fashion in order to build contig scaffolds. In order to account for the varied quality of linking information BAMBUS allows the user to specify a hierarchy that will consider the most reliable linking data first, then expand the scaffolds using less reliable data. This approach minimizes the effect of errors inherent to experimentally-derived linking information.
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