By Michael G. Katze
First, structures biology is an inter-disciplinary procedure, requiring the mixed skills of biologists, mathematicians, and laptop scientists. moment, structures biology is holistic, with the target of acquiring a entire realizing of the workings of organic platforms. this can be completed during the acquisition of big quantities of information via high-throughput technologies—oligonucleotide microarrays, mass spectrometry, and next-generation sequencing—and the research of this information via subtle mathematical algorithms. it truly is might be using arithmetic, to combine ample and various kinds of info and to generate types of interconnected molecular networks, that most sensible characterizes structures biology.
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2011). The data provide protein-level experimental validation for approximately half of the predicted protein-coding genes in Salmonella and suggest revisions to several genes that appear to have incorrectly assigned translational start sites. The proteomics data also revealed 12 non-annotated genes missed by gene prediction programs and provided evidence that suggested a role for one of these genes in Salmonella pathogenesis. Moreover, the data-enabled characterization of post-translational features in the Salmonella genome that included chemical modifications and proteolytic cleavages.
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Moreover, the data-enabled characterization of post-translational features in the Salmonella genome that included chemical modifications and proteolytic cleavages. This information revealed a much larger and more complex repertoire of chemical modifications in bacteria than previously thought and included several novel modifications and more than 130 signal peptide 28 C. Ansong et al. and N-terminal methionine cleavage events critical for protein function. The refined genome annotation facilitates omics analyses and is useful for developing more complete models of metabolism and regulation.