They hope that these sequences will serve as markers or reference points to locate genes of interest amid the thousands strung out along the DNA of the genome.

He was looking for something, having trouble locating it amid the jumble.

But he located a whiff of sincere desperation amid the skeptical jumble and he grabbed it, enlarged it.

There were those times when the telephone rang, and she could not locate a phone amid the clutter.

Sisko thought, trying to locate his reading amid a moil of small life-forms within the Sawar quarantine zone.

Odo quickly concluded that locating Indurane amid the turbulence of the Great Link would not be a simple matter.

The album's theme, in fact, is Ms. Perry's effort to locate an identity amid the confusion of her success.

Riker glanced around, looking for them, but was unable to locate either woman amid the assembled crowd of bachelors and serving maids.

At first, he had trouble locating the ship amid the clutter of alien and Federation vessels daisy-chained around the points of the station's docking pylons.

Quickly she located the canisters of whitespice amid boxes and barrels of taze, nuts, dried fruit, and other pungent seasonings that made her eyes water.