Pathogenicity islands are segments of horizontally transferred genetic material that encode proteins involved in virulence.
He rattled off the material that is "encoded" in the physical artifact that we call a book: for example, who published it, what it sells for, where it was made, where the materials came from.
Our identification of a very large plasmid densely packed with genetic material that is typically encoded on chromosomal arms suggests that linear plasmids play a major role in this genomic flux.
Our hospital uses the policy that encoded patient material that was originally removed for diagnostic purposes may be used for further research unless the patient has stated otherwise.
The genomes of 179 people from four different populations were sequenced partially, while samples from 697 individuals across seven populations were sequenced for genetic material that is responsible for encoding proteins across the body.
Only 16 genomes lacked one of the components, of which 13 lacked the comP gene that encodes a pilin (supplementary table S7, Supplementary Material online).
The samples are not particularly impressive, until you think that this is the stuff of encoded information shaping an entire organism and the material that has transformed the study of genetics, or genomics, and revealed the place of humans in the rest of life.
