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High-throughput phenotyping of multicellular organisms: finding the link between genotype and phenotype
Rosangela Sozzani1, Philip N Benfey
1Department of Biology and IGSP Center for Systems Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Genome Biology
|April 5, 2011
Abstract:
High-throughput phenotyping approaches (phenomics) are being combined with genome-wide genetic screens to identify alterations in phenotype that result from gene inactivation. Here we highlight promising technologies for 'phenome-scale' analyses in multicellular organisms.
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