Comparitive Genomes

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Eukaryotes

  1. History
    1. Initial approach were based on crm size > karyotype > banding > painting (G-banding was most common)
    2. Structure of Typical Eukaryotic gene
  2. Working with Eukaryotic genome
    1. Physical and genetic mapping
    2. Sequencing: Holy grail of comparative genomics
      1. Saccharomyces -> first eukaryotic genome sequenced
      2. HGP -. completed in 2001. Still number of genes is questionable. (gene predicting programmes fail to find ORF; pseudogenes, alternate splicing)
      3. Within pop seq variation makes the comparative genomics difficult
      4. Fugu -> second sequenced

Prokaryotes