• Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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• v.5 no.1 s.9
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• pp.55-92
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• 2005

The factors contributing to the formation of an important scientific concept in South Korea and its circulation in the society are the scientific knowledge that had been already formed, matured, and established in the U.S.A, Europe and Japan and has been introduced into Korea, and the institutions that have been formed during the recent modernization in South Korea. The concept of 'genetic information' cannot be an exception in this context. The concept of genetic information is the one that has been extended and intensified by the genomics and bioinformatics formed and matured through the Human Genome Projects from the former concept of inheritance or heredity within the framework of classical and molecular genetics. The purpose of this study was to find out 'how the production structure of genetic information in South Korea has been formed', under the perspective of the conceptual, epistemic, and institutional holisticity or integratedness in the concept and knowledge production structure idealized in Western advanced nations. The discourse of genetic engineering popular in the mid 1980's in South Korea has catalyzed the development of molecular biology. However, the institutional balance that had been established for the biochemistry departments in Natural Science College and Medical College was not formed between the genetic engineering and genetics departments in South Korea. Therefore, they were unable to achieve the more integrative and macro-level disciplinary impact on life sciences, largely due to institutional lack of the capable (human) genetics departments in some leading Korean colleges of Medicine. In genomics, the cutting-edge reprogramming and restructuring of the traditional genetics in the West, South Korea has not invested, even meagerly, in the infrastructure, fund, and research and development (R & D) for the Basic or First Phase of the research trajectory in the Human Genome Project. Without a minimal Basic Phase, the genomics research and development in Korea has been running more or less for the Advanced or Second Phase. Bioinformatics has started developing in Korea under a narrow perspective which regards it as a mere sub-discipline of information technology (IT). Having developed itself in parallel with genomics, bioinformatics contains its own unique logics and contents that can be both directly and indirectly connected to the information science and technology. As a result, bioinformatics reveals a defect in respect of being synergistically integrated into genetics and life sciences in Korea. Owing to the structural problem in the production, genetic information appears to be produced in a fragmented pattern in the Korean society since its fundamental base is weak and thin. A good example of the conceptual and institutional fragmentedness is that 'the genetics of individual identification' is not a normal integrated part of the Korean genetics, but a scientific practice exercised in the departments of legal medicine in a few Medical Colleges. And the environment contributing to the production structure of genetic information in South Korea today comprises 'sangmyung gonghak'(or life engineering) discourse and non-governmental organization movement.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.323-324
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• 2018

전장 cDNA 클론을 시퀀싱하는 것은 선택적 스플라이싱 형태를 비롯한 정확한 유전자 구조를 정의하는데 유용하게 사용될 수 있으며, 유전자 및 단백질의 생물학적 기능연구에 중요한 자원을 제공한다. 포괄적이며 비 중복적인 cDNA의 생산은 인간 유전체 연구의 중요한 목표이다. 본 연구에서 제공하는 인간 cDNA 라이브러리 분석 파이프라인은 전장 cDNA를 분석하는 자동화 도구로 여러 연구자들에게 활용 될 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.83-84
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• 2018

전장 cDNA 클론을 시퀀싱하는 것은 선택적 스플라이싱 형태를 비롯한 정확한 유전자 구조를 정의하는데 유용하게 사용될 수 있으며, 유전자 및 단백질의 생물학적 기능연구에 중요한 자원을 제공한다. 포괄적이며 비 중복적인 cDNA의 생산은 인간 유전체 연구의 중요한 목표이다. 본 연구에서 제공하는 인간 cDNA 라이브러리 분석 파이프라인은 전장 cDNA를 분석하는 자동화 도구로 여러 연구자들에게 활용 될 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Poultry Science Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.82-83
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• 2006

생식 세포는 한 세대의 유전 정보를 다음세대에 전달할 수 있는 유일한 세포로서 다양한 특성을 가지고 있다. 기능 유전체 연구를 통해서 새로운 유전자의 기능을 규명함으로써 그 유전자의 생물학적 의미와 상호작용을 설명할 수 있다. 본 실험의 목적은 생식세포에서 특이적으로 발현하는 유전자를 발굴하여 그 유전자가 생식세포의 발달과 분화에 중요한 역할을 수행하는 것을 증명하는 것이다. 이에 본 실험에서는 real-time quantitative RT-PCR 기법을 이용하여 정소에서 특이적으로 발현하는 5개(AGE1, AGE2, AGE3, AGE4, AGE5)를 선발하였고, in situ hybridization 실험을 통하여 정소 조직 내에서의 발현 양상을 확인하였다. AGE1, AGE2는 round spermatid에서 특이적으로 발현하고, AGE3, AGE4, AGE5는 spermatocyte에서 특이적으로 발현하는 것을 확인하였다. 본 실험을 통해 발굴한 유전자들은 닭의 생식선발달에 중요한 기능을 할 것으로 예상되며, 앞으로 닭의 유전육종분야에 큰 도움을 줄 수 있을 것이다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.10c
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• pp.268-270
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• 2002

오늘날 급속하게 발전하는 유전자 분석기술은 유전자 서열(sequence), 단백질의 기능(function) 및 구조(structure)정보와 같은 생명현상의 연구에 필수적인 정보들을 제공하게 되었다. 특히, 인간 유전체 프로젝트의 완성 이후 염기 및 단백질의 서열데이터를 이용하여 유사한 서열데이터의 검색 및 관련 단백질의 기능, 구조 정보들과 같은 생물정보의 종합적인 검색이 요구되고 있다. 하지만 기존 대부분의 통합서열분석시스템들은 단지 관련 정보를 포함하는 데이터 베이스들에 접근하며 서열유사성을 분석한 후, 그 결과를 단순히 디스플레이 하는 것이 대부분 이였다. 부연하면, 기존 통합 서열분석시스템들은 각 데이터베이스로부터 검색된 결과들 간의 명확한 관계를 설명하지 못하여 종합적인 생물정보를 제공하지 못하고 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 염기 및 단백질의 서열데이터로부터 서열유사성 검색 및 관련 단백질의 기능, 구조정보에 해당하는 종합적 인 생물정보를 효과적으로 검색, 서비스 할 수 있는 통합 서열분석시스템의 설계, 구현에 관해 기술한다.

• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.23-29
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• 2009

We have previously isolated a CCCH type zinc-finger protein gene, OsZF2 (Oryza sativa Zinc Finger 2), from the cold-treated rice cDNA library. To investigate the potential role of OsZF2, transgenic rice lines over-expressing OsZF2 under the control of CaMV 35S promoter have been developed through Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. Elevated level of OsZF2 transcripts was confirmed by RNA gel blot analysis in transgenic rice. Under the 100 mM NaCl condition, the transgenic rice showed significantly enhanced growth rate in terms of shoot length and fresh weight, implicating that OsZF2 is likely to be involved in salt response of rice. In the field condition, however, the transgenic rice showed a dwarf phenotype and flowering time was delayed. Genome expression profiling analysis of transgenic plants using the 20K NSF rice oligonucleotide array revealed many up-regulated genes related to stress responses and signaling pathways such as chaperone protein dnaJ 72, salt stress-induced protein, PR protein, disease resistance proteins RPM1 and Cf2/Cf5 disease resistance protein, carbohydrate/ sugar transporter, OsWAK kinase, brassinosteroid LRR receptor kinase, and jasmonate O-methyltransferase. These data suggest that the CCCH type zinc-finger protein OsZF2 is a upstream transcriptional factor regulating growth and stress responsiveness of rice.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.7
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• pp.81-87
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• 2010

This paper proposes a G-BLAST(BLAST using Grid Computing) system, an integrated software package for BLAST searches operated in heterogeneous distributed environment. G-BLAST employed 'database splicing' method to improve the performance of BLAST searches using exists computing resources. G-BLAST is a basic local alignment search tool of DNA Sequence using grid computing in heterogeneous distributed environment. The G-BLAST improved the existing BLAST search performance in gene sequence analysis. Also G-BLAST implemented the pipeline and data management method for users to easily manage and analyze the BLAST search results. The proposed G-BLAST system has been confirmed the speed and efficiency of BLAST search performance in heterogeneous distributed computing.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.19-26
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• 2009

The microwave exposure device for microwave breast cancer detection consists of RF transceiver and several antennas. The microwave information of object acquired from the microwave exposure device can be calculated permittivity and conductivity by using the inverse scattered analysis. In this paper, we have developed the software for detecting breast cancers based on microwave tomography, by which users not only can check out the existence of breast cancers through the permittivity and conductivity information analysis of the object's internal, but also can analysis easily information for distribution of breast cancers. The developed software provides the function for visualizing the captured permittivity and conductivity information as 2D or 3D color images on which users can easily detect the existence of breast cancers. For more detailed analysis of tomography images, the proposed software also has provided the functions for displaying their cutting profiles as well as position and size information of special area in them.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.39 no.9
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• pp.890-895
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• 2002

Effect of the sintering time on the microwave dielectric properties of the layered Functionally Graded Materials(FGMs) of the Mg0.93Ca0.07TiO3(MCT) with (Ca0.3Li0.14Sm0.42)TiO3(CLST) ceramics was investigated. The dielectric constant of layered FGMs specimens showed a nearly constant value and did not change significantly with sintering time. The quality factor, however, was affected by the relative density and thermal stress developed in each dielectric layer. With an increase of the relative density and the decrease of the induced thermal stresses, quality factor of the layered FGMs specimens increased and the quality factor was incluenced sensitively by the change of compressive stress developed in MCT layers which had a lower thermal expansion coefficient than that of CLST. For the layered FGMs specimen sintered at 1300$^{\circ}C$ for 9h, the compressive stress developed in MCT layer showed the maximum value, which, in turn, the quality factor of the specimen was the minimum value.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.603-606
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• 2005

하나의 유전자는 또 다른 유전자의 단백질과 프로모터 영역에서 Binding 함으로써 그 유전자의 발현에 영향을 미칠 수 있다. 이러한 두 유전자간의 조절 상호 작용을 유전자 조절망이라 하며 유전체의 핵심적인 기능을 보다 간결하게 표현하는 조절망을 설계할 수 있다. 대표적인 설계 방법으로는 Time-Series Data 를 이용한 방법과 Steady-State Data 를 이용하는 방법이 있으며 이 논문에서는 Steady-State Data 즉, Knock-out Data 를 이용하여 유전자 조절망을 재구성함으로써 기존의 방법을 개선하여 보다 정확한 결과 예측을 목표로 한다.