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Connecting genes, drugs and diseases

A large-scale chemical genetic approach for systematically linking gene expression profiles with compounds and phenotypes offers promise for both basic and applied biomedical research.

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Figure 1: Conceptual generalization of the strategy in Lamb et al.1

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Weinstein, J., Pommier, Y. Connecting genes, drugs and diseases. Nat Biotechnol 24, 1365–1366 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt1106-1365

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