Bioinformatics Profiling Identifies a New Mammalian Clock Gene
Tuesday, April 22, 2014 - 14:30
in Biology & Nature
Over 15 mammalian clock proteins have been identified, but researchers surmise there are more. Could big-data approaches help find them? To accelerate clock-gene discovery, the investigators used a computer-assisted approach to identify and rank candidate clock components, which they liken to online Netflix-like profiling of movie suggestions for customers. This approach found a new core clock gene, which the team named CHRONO.