Machine Learning in Science: Interpreting Gene Regulation

Pretty much every cell in the body of a life form has the same DNA. Genes are bits of this DNA that code for proteins or (less commonly) other huge biomolecules. A gene is communicated through a two-step procedure wherein the geneís DNA is first deciphered into RNA, which is then converted into the corresponding protein. An epic innovation of gene-expression microarraysñ whose advancement began in the second half of the 1990ís and is revolutionarily affecting molecular biology and permits one to screen the DNA-to-RNA part of this major biological procedure. While the ability to gauge transcription of a single gene isn't new, the ability to quantify without a moment's delay the transcription of the considerable number of genes in a living being is new.