I am computational biologist having no idea in plant biology. I would like to start a project which deals with the plants. I was wondering what are the recent trends in plants science in which I can give it a try.
As I already once said in this forum, I think that the creation of transgenic plants producing rare and expensive medical substances or a new generation of antibodies directed against tumour cells is a good project. We know that plants can produce the light and heavy chains of specific antibodies and the protein can be “humanized” by introducing specific genes responsible for the glycosylation of the proteins. Such a production of antibodies would also greatly diminish the chance of introducing prions contaminating animal cell cultures. More over such a production is much cheaper than the classical production in animal cells cultures.
Thank you so much Jean-Pierre. Seems like a nice project but I am looking for something approachable from computational biology side.
To my opinion, the analyses of the non-coding RNA such as long non-coding (lncRNA) and/or small RNAs finaly become also attractive to the plant scientific community. Importance of understanding lncRNA mechanisms extends beyond the description of gene.
Thanks for reply guys. @ Anastassia signalling pathways seems better.
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