| abstract |
Provided is: a method for searching for or identifying a useful gene logically, systematically, within an extremely short time, and with high efficiency, which does not largely rely on the knowledge, experience or the like of a searcher and needs no any gene disruption experiment sequentially in the searching for the useful gene, as not in the case of the conventional techniques; and an apparatus for the method.nPieces of information on the variation of expression of individual genes on a genome, which are obtained on the basis of a microarray or the like, are combined together as the information on the variation of expression of virtual gene cluster units constituted by multiple genes, each of the virtual gene clusters is scored, and a gene cluster containing the useful gene and the useful gene contained in the cluster are searched on the basis of the score for each of the virtual gene clusters. |