The connectivity map

Connectivity Map.
Courtesy: the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

The media (or at least the nerd-media) has been all over the story about the “Connectivity Map,” so you’ll want to have sufficient details for your next nerd cocktail party.

“…A research team led by Broad Institute scientists has developed a new kind of tool that relies on genes to connect diseases with potential drugs to treat them and to predict how new drugs function in cells.”

Read about in this article from the Broad Institute at MIT:

New genomic tool makes connections between drugs and human disease

Be sure to read the full papers in the September 29 issue of Science and in separate publications in the September 28 immediate early edition of Cancer Cell.

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