BARCELONA, Spain, Jan. 28 -- A team of researchers belonging to a joint programme between the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) have discovered a code, unknown to date, in the genome. This new code plays a key role in regulating gene expression, that is to say the mechanism that governs when and in which tissue genes must be expressed. This research has been led by the investigators Modesto Orozco and David Torrents, who both work in the IRB Barcelona - BSC Joint Programme, in collaboration with the team directed by Francisco Javier Luque, at the University of Barcelona. Members of the National Institute of Bioinformatics (INB, acronym in Spanish) have also participated in this study.
