Kumar Lab
Content:
Discoveries
Large-Scale Functional Analysis of the Yeast Genome.
Using a transposon-based approach, we generated the largest collection of defined mutant alleles in the budding yeast.
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Integrating Genomic Approaches to Identify New Genes in Yeast.
By integrating several genomic methodologies, we identified 137 new genes in the budding yeast. In total, this gene complement constitutes approximately 2% of the yeast genome and represents a wealth of previously overlooked yeast biology. Furthermore, we expect similar integrated approaches will be necessary in order to define a more complete set of genes in higher eukaryotes as well.
