Biology – Quantitative Biology – Quantitative Methods
Scientific paper
2009-11-03
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Quantitative Methods
18 pages, 8 figures
Scientific paper
Just as physicists strive to develop a TOE (theory of everything), which explains and unifies the physical laws of the universe, the life-scientist wishes to uncover the TOE as it relates to cellular systems. This can only be achieved with a quantitative platform that can comprehensively deduce and relate protein structure, functional, and evolution of genomes and proteomes in a comparative fashion. Were this perfected, proper analyses would start to uncover the underlying physical laws governing the emergent behavior of biological systems and the evolutionary pressures responsible for functional innovation. In the near term, such methodology would allow the vast quantities of uncharacterized (e.g. metagenomic samples) primary amino acid sequences to be rapidly decoded. Analogous to natural products found in the Amazon, genomes of living organisms contain large numbers of proteins that would prove useful as new therapeutics for human health, energy sources, and/or waste management solutions if they could be identified and characterized. We previously theorized that phylogenetic profiles could provide a quantitative platform for obtaining unified measures of structure, function, and evolution (SF&E)(1). In the present manuscript, we present data that support this theory and demonstrates how refinements of our analysis algorithms improve the performance of phylogenetic profiles for deriving structural/functional relationships.
Bhardwaj Gaurav
Hong Yoojin
Killick Teresa M.
Ko Kyung Dae
Patterson Randen L.
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