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The Immunological Genome Project: networks of gene expression in immune cells

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The Immunological Genome Project combines immunology and computational biology laboratories in an effort to establish a complete 'road map' of gene-expression and regulatory networks in all immune cells

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Figure 1: ImmGen consortium organization and project workflow.
Figure 2: Heat-map representation of 'problem transcripts' from replicate spleen CD4+ T cell samples (1 or 2) purified by each laboratory of the consortium (A–F) during the validation phase of the ImmGen profiling project.

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We thank eBiosciences, Affymetrix and Expression Analysis for participation and support. Supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (R24 AI072073 to C.B.).

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  1. Department of Cancer Immunology and AIDS, and Department of Pathology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 02115, Massachusetts, USA

    Kutlu Elpek, Veronika Lukacs-Kornek, Nora Mauermann & Shannon J Turley

  2. Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, 94305, California, USA

    Daphne Koller

  3. Section on Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, 02115, Massachusetts, USA

    Francis S Kim

  4. Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University and Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge, 02138, Massachusetts, USA

    Francis S Kim

  5. and Department of Medicine, Section on Immunology and Immunogenetics, Joslin Diabetes Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 02115, Massachusetts, USA

    Amy J Wagers, Amy J Wagers, Natasha Asinovski, Scott Davis, Marlys Fassett, Markus Feuerer, Daniel H D Gray, Sokol Haxhinasto, Jonathan A Hill, Gordon Hyatt, Catherine Laplace, Kristen Leatherbee, Diane Mathis & Christophe Benoist

  6. Department of Computer Science, Brown University, Providence, Rhode, 02912, Island, USA

    Radu Jianu & David H Laidlaw

  7. Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, 92093, California, USA

    J Adam Best, Jamie Knell & Ananda W Goldrath

  8. Department of Microbiology & Immunology and the Cancer Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, 94143, California, USA

    Jessica Jarjoura, Joseph C Sun, Yanan Zhu & Lewis L Lanier

  9. Department of Biomechanical Engineering and Center for BioDynamics, Boston University, Boston, 02215, Massachusetts, USA

    Ayla Ergun, Zheng Li & James J Collins

  10. Division of Basic Science, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, 19111, Pennsylvania, USA

    Susan A Shinton & Richard R Hardy

  11. Department of Pathology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, 01655, Massachusetts, USA

    Randall Friedline, Katelyn Sylvia & Joonsoo Kang

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    Shannon J Turley, Daphne Koller, Diane Mathis, Christophe Benoist, David H Laidlaw, Ananda W Goldrath, Lewis L Lanier, James J Collins, Richard R Hardy & Joonsoo Kang

  13. Joslin Diabetes Center & Department of Medicine, Tracy S.P. Heng and Michio W. Painter are in the Section on Immunology and Immunogenetics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA. immgen@joslin.harvard.edu,

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Heng, T., Painter, M., The Immunological Genome Project Consortium. et al. The Immunological Genome Project: networks of gene expression in immune cells. Nat Immunol 9, 1091–1094 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/ni1008-1091

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