Machine learning provides new paradigm in understanding microbial gene regulation
Thursday, December 5, 2019 - 09:20
in Biology & Nature
E. coli are hardy bacteria, able to live in diverse conditions from the surface of a lettuce leaf to an acidic stomach. To survive and thrive in so many environments, the bacteria must use a network of transcriptional regulators to change their gene expression levels in response to their surroundings. Even in E. coli, one of the best characterized bacteria, it is still a significant challenge for scientists to understand how they coordinate the expression of their thousands of genes.