noncoding
adjective
non·cod·ing
(ˈ)nän-ˈkō-diŋ 
: not specifying the genetic code
a noncoding DNA sequence
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But many researchers make the point that surely many more of the noncoding molecules do meaningful things than was suspected before.
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Philip Ball, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
These lncRNAs are just one branch of the noncoding RNA family, and biologists keep discovering others that appear to have different functions and different ways of affecting what happens to a cell—and thus the entire human body.
—Philip Ball, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
With this expansive data set, the team trained deep-learning models to read long strings of genetic code and predict how noncoding sequence variants—hard-to-read chunks of DNA that don’t contain instructions for specific proteins—shape cell identity.
—Celia Ford, WIRED, 12 Oct. 2023
This involves removing the noncoding sequences that interrupt genes and splicing the genetic material back together.
—Joel Richter, The Conversation, 26 July 2023
The short of it is that there are strong suspicions that some noncoding regions of the genome may regulate coding regions, and so be functionally very significant, even if indirectly.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 16 Apr. 2011
Consistent with our hypothesis, many genes involved in reproduction show human acceleration in their coding or adjacent noncoding regions.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 16 Apr. 2011
Eventually the authors focus on a set of markers in a noncoding region which define a genomic block in linkage disequilibrium.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 16 Apr. 2011
The team also looked at noncoding regions of genes, sequences with regulatory or other functions that make up the vast majority of DNA.
—Quanta Magazine, 6 Nov. 2018
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Philip Ball, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
These lncRNAs are just one branch of the noncoding RNA family, and biologists keep discovering others that appear to have different functions and different ways of affecting what happens to a cell—and thus the entire human body.
—Philip Ball, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
With this expansive data set, the team trained deep-learning models to read long strings of genetic code and predict how noncoding sequence variants—hard-to-read chunks of DNA that don’t contain instructions for specific proteins—shape cell identity.
—Celia Ford, WIRED, 12 Oct. 2023
This involves removing the noncoding sequences that interrupt genes and splicing the genetic material back together.
—Joel Richter, The Conversation, 26 July 2023
The short of it is that there are strong suspicions that some noncoding regions of the genome may regulate coding regions, and so be functionally very significant, even if indirectly.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 16 Apr. 2011
Consistent with our hypothesis, many genes involved in reproduction show human acceleration in their coding or adjacent noncoding regions.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 16 Apr. 2011
Eventually the authors focus on a set of markers in a noncoding region which define a genomic block in linkage disequilibrium.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 16 Apr. 2011
The team also looked at noncoding regions of genes, sequences with regulatory or other functions that make up the vast majority of DNA.
—Quanta Magazine, 6 Nov. 2018
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noncoding
adjective
non·cod·ing
(ˈ)nän-ˈkōd-iŋ
: not specifying the genetic code
noncoding introns
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