{"id":160,"date":"2006-10-12T11:31:58","date_gmt":"2006-10-12T09:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/146.107.134.84\/wordpress\/index.php\/2006\/10\/12\/a-zebra-takes-its-stripes-wherever-it-goes\/"},"modified":"2022-03-15T20:05:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T18:05:55","slug":"a-zebra-takes-its-stripes-wherever-it-goes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2006\/10\/a-zebra-takes-its-stripes-wherever-it-goes\/","title":{"rendered":"A zebra takes its stripes wherever it goes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week ends with another African proverb and some thoughts on transcription factor binding sites.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the work of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/ng\/journal\/v38\/n10\/abs\/ng1886.html;jsessionid=A2B5A7FE0AC800D282CF668C5E67F37B\">Janssens<\/a> that &#8220;there is no inherent reason that CRMs [cis regulatory modules] must lie on a contiguous segment of DNA or that they must contain clusters of sites&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/ng\/journal\/v38\/n10\/abs\/ng1006-1102.html\">Halfon<\/a> still expresses the hope that &#8220;we should be able to identify the regulatory elements for any gene starting with only the DNA sequence&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Although an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biomedcentral.com\/1471-2105\/5\/92\">old dream<\/a>, I am now rather sceptical if this prediction will ever work. Recognize the differences of my drawing compared to original figure: I am introducing even another level of temporal relationships. There might be even a close relationship to yesterdays post on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/146.107.134.84\/wordpress\/index.php\/2006\/10\/10\/from-massive-retaliation-to-flexible-response\/\">retaliation<\/a>&#8220;, yea, yea.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/zwischenablage0131.png\" data-rel=\"key-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image162\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/zwischenablage0131.png\" alt=\"zwischenablage0131.png\" height=\"96\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 06.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week ends with another African proverb and some thoughts on transcription factor binding sites. Commenting on the work of Janssens that &#8220;there is no inherent reason that CRMs [cis regulatory modules] must lie on a contiguous segment of DNA or that they must contain clusters of sites&#8221;, Halfon still expresses the hope that &#8220;we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2006\/10\/a-zebra-takes-its-stripes-wherever-it-goes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A zebra takes its stripes wherever it goes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2945],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics-biology","tag-genetics-biology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19672,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/19672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}