This turn is really exciting,for here we can see some practical uses of bioinformatics analysis of AS which can be apt to the bench workers thoughts and gives a new perspective for us.
Question: what is the current focusing of AS except its tissue specificity,any other specificity interesting ?
Alternative splicing can also be tightly regulated by developmental states. It can also have strong association with diseases ( e.g. cancer). All these are interesting subjects for studies.
Posted by Yi Xing at October 11, 2004 04:17 PMNice response. And since you claim that AS is related to such as development,dieases, etc, then can computation be useful for these work? And how?
joke: only statistics?
Posted by lylover at October 12, 2004 04:03 PMsure. if someone classifies the EST libraries based on developmental states, he can do the same kind of analysis for detecting tissue-specificity, as long as there is enough EST counts for libraries with development-state information.
And experimental work can follow computational discoveries.
Posted by Yi Xing at October 12, 2004 04:18 PM