title: A Guide to Packing Your DNA.
abstract: Genetic material is not randomly organized within the nucleus of a cell. How this organization occurs and why it matters are questions that Cell editor Marta Koch posed to Mitchell Guttman, Job Dekker, and Stavros Lomvardas. Excerpts from this Conversation are presented below, and an audio file of the full discussion is available with the article online.
authors.forename: Job
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dekker
authors.forename: Mitchell
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Guttman
authors.forename: Stavros
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lomvardas
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D002875:Chromosomes / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D023281:Genomics; D009316:National Institutes of Health (U.S.); D014481:United States
chemical_list: D004247:DNA