Press Release No. 47
Berlin
Watching the ribosome at work
A new statistical method could help to clarify the function of unknown genes. A research team under Uwe Ohler of the Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB) at the MDC has adapted and tested a filter method from speech signal processing that makes sequencing data more interpretable. First author of the study in Nature Methods is Lorenzo Calviello. “We can use this to watch the ribosome at work”, says group leader Ohler.