<![CDATA[BOL: Category: researchlabs:Bioinformatics]]> https://bioinformaticsonline.com/researchlabs/view/38551/gupta-lab? https://bioinformaticsonline.com/researchlabs/view/38551/gupta-lab Sat, 29 Dec 2018 13:18:31 -0600 <![CDATA[Gupta Lab]]> Work include (i) understanding the evolutionary relationships among different prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms; (ii) Understanding the cellular functions of these lineage-specific signature proteins as well as lineage-specific conserved inserts and deletions in important housekeeping proteins by genetic and biochemical studies; (iii) Development of novel diagnostic methods (PCR based and immunological) for identification of different groups of organisms based upon these signature proteins and conserved indels; (iv) The use of these lineage-specific probes with predicitive ability to identify/explore the presence of different groups of organisms in metagenomic sequences from various environments.

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