👉 Buzzwigs, also known as "bigwig," are a type of genetic marker used in gene expression analysis to quantify the levels of a particular gene or protein. These markers consist of a large number of small DNA fragments that can be sequenced and analyzed for their sequence similarity to the corresponding genes or proteins. Buzwig is named after the British biologist R.A. Watson, who first described it as such in 1952. The term "bigwig" was coined by John