Congrats to current postdoc @timothyfuqua.bsky.social who recently published the work from his former-postdoc position working on promoter emergence in random vs genomic DNA.
Our study comparing promoter existence and emergence in random vs genomic DNA is finally published!!!
TLDR: the E. coli genome has more promoters than random DNA (even in intergenic regions), and promoters emerge ~3x more readily from random DNA than genomic DNA. (1/2)
Theoretical Ecology and Evolution (THEE) Group
www.science.org
Promoters emerge three times more readily from random DNA than from genomic DNA.
