C-Map
C-Map
C Map - Connectivity map - A very interesting application of data mining. Scientists have created a map that connects the existing drugs to diseases. It uses human genome to systematically put the language of diseases and the language of drug in the same plane. Certain genes turn on or off based on the disease. So cells with diseases and and those treated by the drugs are compared in terms of their genetic signature and then linked in the map.
This map can be used to figure out what drugs are near a given drug. Given a disease, it can also be used to find what other diseases are near that. (Nearness could be defined through various means - one example being Euclidean distance.) It could be used to find new drugs, new uses of old drugs, etc. Very exciting.
C Map - Connectivity map - A very interesting application of data mining. Scientists have created a map that connects the existing drugs to diseases. It uses human genome to systematically put the language of diseases and the language of drug in the same plane. Certain genes turn on or off based on the disease. So cells with diseases and and those treated by the drugs are compared in terms of their genetic signature and then linked in the map.
This map can be used to figure out what drugs are near a given drug. Given a disease, it can also be used to find what other diseases are near that. (Nearness could be defined through various means - one example being Euclidean distance.) It could be used to find new drugs, new uses of old drugs, etc. Very exciting.
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