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Overview
Since its inception in 2002, scientists in the Center for Evolutionary Functional Genomics (EFG) have leveraged innovations in information technology into tools for testing long-standing biological problems. The recent ability to obtain the complete DNA sequence information of any organism, or genome, has allowed us to map and explore the genetic blueprints necessary for life as well as their evolution. We are developing new methods for exploring the gene interactions that guide the maturation of a single fertilized egg cell into a complex adult animal with trillions of cells and building easy-to-use computer software for the analysis of genomic databases. Using developmental gene expression image data from Drosophila, we are developing the first-of-a-kind computational tool and web resource for the digital analysis of developmental gene expression patterns. Read More »
Center News
Big Buzz: Landmark fruit fly DNA study advances genetics
In a set of papers published in the journal Nature, the Biodesign Institute’s Sudhir Kumar, along with colleagues Alan Filipski, Sonja Prohaska and Stuart Newfeld, participated in the largest comparative DNA analysis of higher organisms ever assembled. In all, the complete DNA sequences, or genomes, from a dozen different fruit fly species were assembled to understand the differences between species at the DNA level. Read More »
The Aye-Ayes Have it: The preservation of color vision in a creature of the night
A quest to gain a more complete picture of color vision evolution has led Biodesign Institute researcher Brian Verrelli to an up-close, genetic encounter with one of the world’s most rare and bizarre-looking primates. Read More »
