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Economist George Gilder now speaks of America's cities as "centers of value subtraction"--parasites that suck social and economic vitality from the rest of the country.
The premise that subtraction of the MM from PM essentially serves to extract constructively the nonspecific components (cross-hybridization, noise, and so on) of the signal common to both should be reconsidered in the light of the results obtained in this study.
All data from patient and control samples were preprocessed (background subtraction, differential intensities) using Affymetrix GeneChip software, and average differential intensity (ADI) was used for analysis.
*Computed by subtraction within the same size class.
Recently, we supplemented the well-known SSH #(suppression subtractive hybridization) technology [ 7 8 ] with the Mirror Orientation Selection method (MOS) for eliminating background clones from SSH-generated libraries [ 9 ] . This innovative procedure allowed the application of these techniques in the subtraction of large eukaryotic genomes, including those of freshwater planarian (haploid genome size of G. tigrina is 1.4 × 10 9bp [ 10 ] ). Using the SSH-MOS combination, genomes of two different strains of G. tigrina were compared.