Technologies

Nucleic acid manipulation

UIC inventors have proposed a new splice site prediction method using inhomogeneous Markov chain model, combined with three-layer feed forward Neural Networks.
Nucleotides are the building blocks of DNA, which form the code for genes that determine physical characteristics and production traits in animals such as milk yield. When one of the nucleotides in DNA coding for a gene is replaced by another as a result of a mutation, a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) is formed. These SNPs can have drastic effects on the function of a particular gene, for example increasing susceptibility to certain diseases or increasing or decreasing potential production characteristics such as milk yield.
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