Assignment BMG5: how to verify bioinformatic results

Opened: Monday, 23 November 2009, 11:40 AM
Due: Sunday, 10 January 2010, 11:40 AM

We have seen how CAGE and tiling microarray analysis support the identification of several unexpected transcripts and, consequently, CAGE data can identify the TSS and promoter for each of them.

In some case, this gave extremely puzzling results, since the transciption unit identified do not resemble any of the previously known TU.

Could you suggest a way to test in the laboratory if the promoters identified at the 5' of these unusual TU are real promoters ?