Chemogenomic Approaches to Elucidation of Gene Function and Genetic Pathways
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The approximately 6,000 strains in the yeast deletion collection can be studied in a single culture by using a microarray to detect the 20 bp DNA "barcodes" or "tags" contained in each strain. Barcode intensities measured by microarray are compared across time-points or across conditions to analyze the relative fitness of each strain. The development of this pooled fitness assay has greatly facilitated the functional annotation of the yeast genome by making genome-wide gene-deletion studies faster and easier, and has led to the development of high throughput methods for studying drug action in yeast. Pooled screens can be used for identifying gene functions, measuring the functional relatedness of gene pairs to group genes into pathways, identifying drug targets, and determining a drug's mechanism of action. This process involves five main steps: preparing aliquots of pooled cells, pooled growth, isolation of genomic DNA and PCR amplification of the barcodes, array hybridization, and data analysis. In addition to yeast fitness applications, the general method of studying pooled samples with barcode arrays can also be adapted for use with other types of samples, such as mutant collections in other organisms, siRNA vectors, and molecular inversion probes.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".