Special for Kristin. Everyone else may read as well :-)

1st detailed map of a "complex" organism - Drosophila (fruit fly)
            http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3223318.stm


If you want to know how much we are learning about genomics, read this
material,

If you want to know how very very little we know about genomics read this
material a little carefully and think about what they are saying. Even the
BBC article is a good start for this.

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1st detailed map of a "complex" organism - Drosophila (fruit fly)

BBC News:        Scientists .... have produced a draft map of 20,405
interactions between 7,048* proteins in the fruit fly.

        http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3223318.stm

Curagen website    http://www.curagen.com/

Materials & methods (9 page PDF)
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/data/1090289/DC1/1

Table of interactions   270 page PDF :-)
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/data/1090289/DC1/2

Abstract:    http://www.curagen.com/corporate/pubs.asp#science_paper

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* RMc note: Human genome has about 100,000 Proteins. IF interaction is
linearly related to square of number of proteins (seems a reasonable
assumption) then at the same superficial level seen here we have about 4
million interactions. Human interactions table at same superficial level
would arguably run to about 50,000 pages :-). Maybe not. maybe far far more.




        RMc

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by single gene transfer, why should we believe that it might not happen
again, once or on numerous occasions in future, but in less controlled
circumstances?

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