Extracting and characterizing protein-free megabase-pair DNA for in vitro experiments

Chromosome structure and function is studied using various cell-based methods as well as with a range of in vitro single-molecule techniques on short DNA substrates. Here, we present a method to obtain megabase-pair-length deproteinated DNA for in vitro studies. We isolated chromosomes from bacterial cells and enzymatically digested the...

Computational Biology in Clinical Proteomics and Chromatin Genomics

The work in this thesis is concerned with two very distinct biological fields. The first part pertains to the development of techniques to aid in the search for clinical biomarkers for use in the early detection of cancer. The second part aims to elucidate in what way a genome is organised in a cell nucleus and the functional consequences of...