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Wow, what a time to be alive! For those who are not into bio, this type of information is invaluable for untangling the molecular mechanisms of disease and can
by pfisherman 5y ago
Wow, what a time to be alive! For those who are not into bio, this type of information is invaluable for untangling the molecular mechanisms of disease and can provide important clues about where we should intervene with a small molecule or antibody drug to disrupt disease processes.
To give a coding analogy, you can think of this as trying to debug a program written in a language we can’t read. We have no idea what lines are doing what, but there are many different versions / forks of this program floating around. By looking at all the diffs and comparing the outputs, we can start to figure out what some of the code is doing, and which lines we might want to comment out to correct certain types of bugs.