Detective in a Cell: How RevPert Pinpoints the Genes That Set Disease in Motion
A detective arrives at a crime scene and finds a shoe print. He doesn't ask, "What would happen if this boot walked through mud?" He asks, "Which of the known owners could have left exactly this print?" That's how RevPert works too, except instead of prints it has activity profiles of thousands of genes, and instead of a criminal database it has a catalog of genes that scientists already know how to switch off in…