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Can anyone explain what the big deal is on this? Would it benefit my biomed research?

• epistasis 15y ago
  They claim a non-parametric correlation metric that can capture all sorts of dependencies that current metrics may miss. This is kind of cool, and may eventually prove to be a big deal. If you're trying to find out what your new, unstudied, gene of interest does, it may help you find genes that it is co-expressed with, and give a hint at function. In reality it's a big deal right now because they're marketing their paper as if it were a movie, with press releases, a professionally produced trailer, and well-designed web sites. Personally, it comes across as trying way too hard, but whenever Broad rediscovers some well-hashed field they like to play it up as if they were Newton releasing calculus upon the world.