Drug Discovery Methods
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Abstract
Methods for identifying disease-related pathways that can used to identify drug discovery targets, to identify new uses for known drugs, to identify markers for drug response, and related purposes.
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45 Claims
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1-25. -25. (canceled)
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26. A method for evaluating user-supplied genomics data using a structured database that permits the computation of complex relationships among genes and/or gene products contained in the database, comprising:
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(a) defining a profile model based on one or more profile definition criterion; (b) building a collection of profiles according to the profile model; (c) identifying one or more profiles that overlap at least a portion of the user-supplied genomics data and determining, for each such overlapped profile, whether the overlap is statistically significant; and (d) analyzing one or more statistically significant profiles together with the user-supplied genomics data including inspecting database-asserted biological interactions embodied in the one or more statistically significant profiles. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44)
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45-53. -53. (canceled)
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