Functional genomics: the worm scores a knockout.
Following the completion of the genome sequence of Caenorhabditis elegans, four independent studies have now assessed the functions of more than a third of the worm's genes by analysing the phenotypes caused when each of a large set of genes is inactivated by RNA interference.
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Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University, California, Stanford 94305, USA. kim@cmgm.stanford.edu
D000818:Animals; D017173:Caenorhabditis elegans / Q000235:genetics*; D020868:Gene Silencing; D016678:Genome; D010641:Phenotype