{"id":92,"date":"2005-02-02T16:27:47","date_gmt":"2005-02-02T16:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/wordp\/?p=92"},"modified":"2005-02-02T16:27:47","modified_gmt":"2005-02-02T16:27:47","slug":"microarrays-aid-the-study-of-gene-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"Microarrays aid the study of gene activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just read a great article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/medtech\/0,1286,66458,00.html\">wired.com<\/a> about Microarrays <em>(silicon chips that light up to reveal which genes are active in a DNA sequence)<\/em>. These chips produce huge volumes of information that scientists have found extremely difficult to process and interpret. Enter the helping hand of s\/w company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topcoder.com>Top Coder<\/a> &#038; scientists at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salk.edu\/\">Salk Institute<\/a>. Top code chairman, Jack Hughes, is a paraplegic who also works as director of the <a href=\"\">Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation<\/a> researching cures for ameliorating spinal cord damage. Top coder is making a search tool in the form of the <a href=\"http:\/\/genechip.salk.edu\/index.jsp\">Gene Chip Data Interface<\/a> available to all researchers in this field This should enable scientists to  better understand the genetic effects of spinal chord damage in particular and microarray data in general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just read a great article on wired.com about Microarrays (silicon chips that light up to reveal which genes are active in a DNA sequence). These chips produce huge volumes of information that scientists have found extremely difficult to process and interpret. Enter the helping hand of s\/w company<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1701],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}