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» 3'UTR - Wikipedia article on the untranslated regions at the ends of mRNA. » Alternative Splicing - Wikipedia article on the process in eukaryotes in which the splicing process of a pre-mRNA can lead to different ripe mRNA molecules and therefore to different proteins. » Anatomy of a Comparative Gene Expression Study - Clear explanation of the process of comparing the gene expression in two cell populations or tissue samples by fluorescent microarray technique. » Biochemistry of Nucleic Acids - Lecture notes on nucleic acid structure, DNA replication and repair, the genetic code and translation, as well as cancer genes, from Oregon State University, USA 2003. » Control of Gene Expression - A collection of diagrams illustrating the fundamentals of molecular biology. » Enhancer - Wikipedia article on enhancers, short pieces of DNA which bind to trans-acting factors to enhance transcription levels of genes. » Epigenetic Station - With information, protocols and resources about epigenetics and DNA methylation and much advertising. » Epigenetic inheritance - Transmission of information from a cell or multicellular organism to its descendants without that information being encoded in the nucleotide sequence of the gene. Wikipedia article. » Epigenetics - Article on the site of CellCentric on epigenetics. » Eukaryotic Gene Expression Problem Set - Multiple choice questions about post-transcriptional modification of RNA, promoters, and nuclear RNA processing. From: University of Arizona, USA 1997. » European Sequencing of Tobacco - A collaboration between Advanced Technologies (Cambridge) Ltd and Tobacco Institute of Bergerac to sequence a large number of tobacco genes. » Exon - Wikipedia article on regions in genes that are expressed in mature mRNA and in proteins. » Expressed Sequence Tag - Wikipedia article: EST are short sub-sequences of genes, used in mRNA sequencing and in construction of DNA microarrays. » Gene Expression - UCLA Molecular Biology Tutorials on gene expression and gene cloning » Gene Expression: Transcription - Resource for transcription events during gene formation including schematic diagrams. » Gene Regulation - Wikipedia article on the mechanisms that regulate gene expression. » Gene Regulatory Network - Wikipedia article on the mathematical modelling of gene expression as a network. » Genetic Code - Wikipedia article on the relationship between the nucleic acid base sequence and the corresponding polypeptide amino acid sequence. » Genome-Wide Expression - Report on a project to analyze the transcriptional regulatory circuitry of the yeast cell. From the Young Lab at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. » Genomes to Life - The US Department of Energy at Oak Ridge program for research in moleular biology: goals and results. » Imprinting - Wikipedia article on the suppressing of genes by chemical modification, depending on which parent they were received from. » Induction of Repair Genes in Yeast - Mercier G., Denis Y., Marc P., Picard L. and Dutreix M.: Transcriptional induction of repair genes during slowing of replication in irradiated Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mutation Research 487 (dec 2001)157-172: article and supporting background data. » Intron - Wikipedia article on sections of genes that are eliminated by splicing in the formation of mature mRNA and therefore not expressed as proteins. » Laboratory of Intelligent Systems - Project at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) creating electronic models of the evolution of gene expression, neural development and similar evolution processes. » Mammary Genome Anatomy Project - Forum to integrate various aspects of mammary gland biology, including cellular and developmental aspects, and to promote collaborations and the exchange of ideas, knowledge and resources at NIH, Maryland. » Messenger RNA - Wikipedia article on the RNA that carries information from DNA to protein synthesis. » Monocistronic - Wikipedia article: Messenger RNA that codes for one polypeptide string only. » Noncoding DNA - Wikipedia article: sections of DNA that do not contain codes for polypeptide sequences. » Operon - Wikipedia article: group of genes in primitive organisms that are controlled by one operator and one promoter to be activated together. » Posttranslational modification - Wikipedia article: chemical modification of polypeptide chains after synthesis. » Pre-mRNA - Wikipedia article: RNA string syntesized in the cell nucleus before modification (splicing, polyadenylation) and export to the cytoplasm. » Prokaryotic Genetics and Gene Expression - Chapter from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) introductory hypertextbook on molecular biology. » Promoter - Wikipedia article: in genetics a sequence located upstream of a gene that enables its translation. » Protein biosynthesis - Wikipedia article: summary of the process by which the cell converts the DNA sequence proteins. » Regulation of Gene Expression - Overview of different aspects of gene expression, including transcription, chromatin modification, and analysis of whole genomes, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass, USA. » RiboWeb Project - Knowledge base that combines data on the structure of the prokaryotic 30S ribosomal subunit that initiates the translation of mRNA into protein, its function and related links and references. » Ribosomes - Explanation of how the information encoded in mRNA is translated into a polypeptide. Includes differences between prokaryotes and eukaryotes by John W. Kimball, now retired from Harvard College. » Role of the Ribosome - Illustrated explanation of the ribosomal protein synthesis by Gwen V. Childs, University of Texas, Galveston, TX. » SECIS element - Wikipedia article: Sequence that directs translation of UGA as selenocysteine insteado of using it as a stop codon. » Serial Analysis of Gene Expression - Explanation of Serial Analysis of Gene Expression (SAGE), a method for analysis of gene expression patterns. » Shine-Dalgarno sequence - Wikipedia article: signals the initiation of protein synthesis in bacteria. » Signal peptide - Wikipedia article: short peptide sequences that direct the post-translational transport of proteins after synthesis. » Spliceosome - Wikipedia article: particle composed of DNA and peptide chains that effects mRNA splicing in the cell nucleus of eucaryotic cells. » Splicing - Wikipedia article: in genetics, the process of removing introns from mRNA in the cell nucleus before export to the cytoplasm and use as master for protein synthesis. » The Epigenome Network of Excellence - Network of research groups on heritable changes in gene expression without a change in DNA sequence, funded by the European Union. » Transcription - Wikipedia article: in genetics the process by which a DNA sequence is converted to a corresponding RNA sequence. » Transcription Factor - Proteins that specifically bind to promotor or enhancer regions on DNA and thereby control the transcription of the downstream gene. » Transfer RNA - Wikipedia article: small RNA molecules that transport amino acids to their positions on the ribosome during polypeptide synthesis. » Translation - Wikipedia article: in genetics, the process by which ribosomes in the cytoplasm transfer the genetic code from a m-RNA sequence to an amino acid sequence in a polypeptide chain.

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