But investors soon realized that prospects for many of these companies were limited, particularly for those selling tools and services for analyzing genes.

To identify patterns within these clusters, the research team adapted a method used in biology to analyze genes.

Another of the tools for analyzing genes is microarray technology, in which the expression of transcripts of thousands of genes can be investigated simultaneously.

Biologists who now use computers to romp through DNA data bases and analyze genes believe that they have struck on a third kind: biology in silico, referring to the computer's silicon chips.

Among his accomplishments was the development of a test to analyze cancer-causing genes and monitor genetic changes in blood, bone marrow and tumor cells during treatment.

Medical laboratory equipment automates or helps analyze blood, urine and genes.

Myriad has since expanded into drug development and into analyzing proteins as well as genes.

Thanks to the decrease in time and cost to analyze genes, scientists now are taking a broader approach by sequencing and analyzing multiple cancer-causing genes at once.

It can be engineered for laboratory purposes, where it can be used to analyze genes in a given organism.

In biotechnology, stock in Affymetrix, which makes chips that are used to analyze genes, has risen elevenfold since its 1996 initial public offering, even though it is still unprofitable.