Exploring a Genome's 3D Organization Through a Social Network Lens (IMAGE)

Carnegie Mellon University

Exploring a Genome's 3D Organization Through a Social Network Lens

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Much as groups of sailors work together with ropes to accomplish tasks aboard ship, collections of transcription factor proteins work with sections of chromosomes as a community in the nucleus of a cell to carry out cell functions. Computational biologists at Carnegie Mellon University have developed algorithms for identifying these communities in cell nuclei.

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Ella Marushchenko

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