El Mapa de Conectividad: usando firmas de expresión génica para conectar pequeñas moléculas, genes y enfermedades

Justin Lamb1, Emily D Crawford, David Peck

  • 1Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA. justin@broad.mit.edu

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|September 30, 2006
PubMed
Resumen

Los investigadores crearon una base de datos de perfiles de expresión génica para encontrar vínculos entre enfermedades, cambios genéticos y efectos de medicamentos. Este recurso "Mapa de conectividad" ayuda a descubrir conexiones entre moléculas, procesos y tratamientos potenciales.

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