The Scientist : Double mutations [14/12/2001]

A high-throughput strategy identifies synthetic lethality of thousands of yeast genes.

Email: Jonathan B Weitzman - jonathanweitzman@hotmail.com
News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20011214-01

14 December 2001

The vast majority of genes in the yeast genome are non-essential suggesting significant functional redundancy. In the December 14 Science, Amy Tong and colleagues describe an approach for high-throughput synthetic-lethal analysis in yeast (Science 2001, 294:2364-2368).

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