davison@bnl44.UUCP (Dan Davison) (05/15/85)
I've been asked to think about designing a computer system which is capable of recognizing chromosomes. This seems pretty esoteric to me, but in case anyone knows of any automatic karyotyping systems or even rumors, guesses, scandal, etc. I'd like to hear about it. The system would "only" have to recognize various chromosomes of the same organism, not different ones. I imagine there'd have to be some pretty sophisticated software for dealing with pattern recognition of chromosome banding, plus compensating for the distortions inherent in the process (compression or expansion in all three planes). Anyway, if anyone has heard of anything like this, I'd like to hear from you. Thanks in advance. dan davison davison@bnl44.arpa, davison@sumex-aim.arpa ...decvax!philabs!sbcs!bnl44!davison Dept of Microbiology SUNY at Stony Brook Stony Brook NY 11794 USA ddd: 516-246-2446 for messages; 516-473-2487 most times