The work of a Japanese-led international scientific consortium on the development of a method for identifying genes hidden in large genome sequences is described in the latest issue of the scientific journal Nature, which is released today.
The consortium, headed by Yoshihide Hayashizaki of the RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, has analyzed more than 20,000 strands of mouse DNA in order to clarify the function of the gene they represent, it has announced.
The magazine will detail the first chapter of their Mouse Gene Encyclopedia Project.