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... and get 3*2 = 6 reading frames. Usage? As genetherapy wrote, when you do not know, which reading frame is the right one (e.g. for screening of EST), you will want to cover all of them.

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'many' is a vague term, and there are many people and many discoveries and many that lead no-where and some of the many for good reason! ; and just because one can think up a new word like transcriptomics doesnt mean one is clever, with all due respect. What matters to me, and many biochemists, is ...

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However, there are limitations of this technology. Of course the advantage of EST is that it provides direct evidence of the expression of a gene. I understand what you are saying, but most people are only interested in whether you get an active protein or not ...

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However, there are limitations of this technology. Of course the advantage of EST is that it provides direct evidence of the expression of a gene. I understand what you are saying, but most people are only interested in whether you get an active protein or not ...

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EST is short for expressed sequence tags, where partially sequenced cDNA fragments are used to represent gene expression. It has the power of gene discovery on a genomic level, i think the term 'transcriptome' is used in ...

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