{"id":190196,"date":"2024-05-27T10:23:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T15:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/software-tools-identify-forgotten-genes"},"modified":"2024-05-27T10:23:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T15:23:19","slug":"software-tools-identify-forgotten-genes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/software-tools-identify-forgotten-genes","title":{"rendered":"Software tools identify forgotten genes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/software-tools-identify-forgotten-genes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One tool, called <a href=\"https:\/\/fmug.amaral.northwestern.edu\/\">Find My Understudied Genes<\/a> (FMUG), emerged from a study published in March<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-024-01548-w#ref-CR1\">1<\/a><\/sup>, which first explores why interesting, but relatively under-researched, genes are not highlighted in genetic surveys, and then offers FMUG as a remedy.<\/p>\n<p>The second tool is the <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosbiology\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pbio.3002222\">Unknome database<\/a>, created by a team led by Matthew Freeman at the University of Oxford, UK, and Sean Munro at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK, that was described<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-024-01548-w#ref-CR2\">2<\/a><\/sup> in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in the lucky position to know what we don\u2019t know,\u201d says Thomas Stoeger, a biologist at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, and co-author of the FMUG study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One tool, called Find My Understudied Genes (FMUG), emerged from a study published in March1, which first explores why interesting, but relatively under-researched, genes are not highlighted in genetic surveys, and then offers FMUG as a remedy. The second tool is the Unknome database, created by a team led by Matthew Freeman at the University [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}