Method quickly surveys yeast genome by gene function, not sequence
...enetic material of each mutant. Shoemaker now has barcodes in all of the existing yeast mutants. He's also de...d one barcode at a time, the chip can read all the barcodes at once," says Boeke, co-director of a new microarray facility that will soon open to serve research...DNA barcode finds four new bird species
...umbers of organisms and highlight those with novel barcodes that are likely to be new species." Identify...arcode for this idea, analogous to the supermarket barcodes that allow quick identification of millions of items. The technique depends on analyzing......es genes to identify species much like supermarket barcodes identify products. Using a region of one specific ... that species. The authors report that the genetic barcodes therefore "separate individuals into the categories that taxonomists call species." As their tec...