Timeline for Detecting whether genome is genetically engineered?
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| Nov 30, 2020 at 17:21 | answer | added | chrishmorris | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 28, 2020 at 15:29 | history | edited | M__♦ | edited tags | |
| Feb 16, 2020 at 20:10 | history | edited | M__♦ | edited tags | |
| Feb 16, 2020 at 17:02 | answer | added | M__♦ | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 14, 2020 at 21:26 | comment | added | Devon Ryan | Sure, transgenes will make things obvious, but they're not generally present when we genetically modify something. | |
| Feb 14, 2020 at 21:22 | comment | added | yters | @DevonRyan can we at least guarantee true positives with high reliability? It seems to be the case, e.g. if we see a massive segment of DNA from a totally different species spliced into the DNA sequence we are examining. I'm asking if there is a good general methodology for at least identifying true positives reliably, even if we cannot identify true negatives reliably. | |
| Feb 14, 2020 at 20:10 | comment | added | Devon Ryan | For the record, there is no guaranteed way to do this, it'd be completely impossible. We genetically engineer things all the time by just changing a few bases to things that already naturally occur in the species (but not at the same time in the wild) to speed up animal/crop breeding, as a simple example. | |
| Feb 14, 2020 at 20:03 | comment | added | yters | @MichaelG. since you reference conspiracy theories, probably in regard to the coronavirus outbreak: for the record, I do not think the Wuhan coronavirus is genetically engineered. But, the conspiracy theories made me wonder if there is a reliable way to detect whether genetically engineering has occurred in genetic data. | |
| Feb 14, 2020 at 19:46 | comment | added | Mack123456 | Researcher have generated transgenic organisms for over a century. So yes there are many "modified genomes" available. You could also take any strain of interest, modify a few nucleotides, add some indels, or even an entire gene and analyze that. For step 3 for example, you could take humanized mouse or fly models used in disease biology... | |
| Feb 14, 2020 at 16:50 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Feb 14, 2020 at 16:26 | history | edited | yters | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Note on research I've done. |
| Feb 14, 2020 at 16:11 | history | asked | yters | CC BY-SA 4.0 |