After consulting with one of our staff biologists, and surveying some articles, it seems like this is the case: Gene Expression Profile: This is the difference either between two organisms' genomes, or between an organism and the averaged experimental norm. In other words, it is the entire definition for an individual. Gene Expression Fingerprint: This is a subset of the profile that accounts for a particular trait, such as markers for a disease. On average, the profile would be in the thousands of genes, while the fingerprint would be in the dozens to hundreds.
Anyone else got a better description? -Peter Marchetto On Jun 18, 2008, at 7:31 PM, Pete Marchetto wrote: > > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Surya Gaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: June 18, 2008 4:46:07 AM EDT >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [BiO BB] please help >> Reply-To: "General Forum at Bioinformatics.Org" <[email protected] >> > >> >> somebody please tell me the difference between gene expression >> profile and gene expression fingerprint..how do we usually get or >> derive each of them..? >> >> thanks in advance >> >> >> >> Compose Email: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Add to Contacts >> >> >> Compose Email: >> [email protected] >> Add to Contacts >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> BBB mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bbb >> > _______________________________________________ BBB mailing list [email protected] http://www.bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bbb
