摘要:
The invention encompasses methods for diagnosing, theranosing, or prognosing a condition in a patient based on the results of one or more analysis methods. The methods can comprise enriching a sample obtained from the patient for one or more rare cells. The analysis methods can include performing enumeration of the one or more rare cells or cell subtypes, performing nucleic acid analysis, or detecting a serum marker.
摘要:
The invention encompasses methods for diagnosing, theranosing, or prognosing a condition in a patient based on the results of one or more analysis methods. The methods can comprise enriching a sample obtained from the patient for one or more rare cells. The analysis methods can include performing enumeration of the one or more rare cells or cell subtypes, performing nucleic acid analysis, or detecting a serum marker.
摘要:
This invention provides methods for determining drug specificity, therapeutic index and effective doses for individual patients. According to the methods of the invention, graded levels of drug are applied to a biological sample or a patient. A plurality of cellular constituents are measured to determine the activity of the drug on a target pathway and at least one off-target pathway. A drug specificity is determined by comparing the target and off target activities of the drug. A therapeutic concentration (or dose) is defined as a concentration (or dose) of the drug that induces certain response in the target pathway. A toxic concentration (or dose) is defined as a concentration (or dose) of the drug that induces certain response in the off target pathway. Therapeutic index is the ratio of the toxic concentration over therapeutic concentration. Methods are also provided to determine an effective dose of a drug for a patient by measuring the activity of the drug on the particular patient.
摘要:
The present invention provides systems, apparatuses, and methods to detect the presence of fetal cells when mixed with a population of maternal cells in a sample and to test fetal abnormalities, i.e. aneuploidy. In addition, the present invention provides methods to determine when there are insufficient fetal cells for a determination and report a non-informative case. The present invention involves quantifying regions of genomic DNA from a mixed sample. More particularly the invention involves quantifying DNA polymorphisms from the mixed sample.
摘要:
A method for fluorophore bias removal in microarray experiments in which the fluorophores used in microarray experiment pairs are reversed. Further, a method for calculating the individual errors associated with each measurement made in nominally repeated microarray experiments. This error measurement is optionally coupled with rank based methods in order to determine a probability that a cellular constituent is up or down regulated in response to a perturbation. Finally, a method for determining the confidence in the weighted average of the expression level of a cellular constituent in nominally repeated microarray experiments.
摘要:
The present invention provides methods for detecting a target pathogenic agent, e.g., a virus, a bacterium, and/or a toxic substance, using colocalization detection. The invention also provides methods for parallel detection of different target pathogenic agents in a sample using multiplexed labeling and colocalization detection. The invention also provides kits comprising sets of probes for detecting pathogenic agents. The invention further provides computer systems and computer program products for carrying out the method of determining degrees of colocalization.
摘要:
A method for fluorophore bias removal in microarray experiments in which the fluorophores used in microarray experiment pairs are reversed. Further, a method for calculating the individual errors associated with each measurement made in nominally repeated microarray experiments. This error measurement is optionally coupled with rank based methods in order to determine a probability that a cellular constituent is up or down regulated in response to a perturbation. Finally, a method for determining the confidence in the weighted average of the expression level of a cellular constituent in nominally repeated microarray experiments.
摘要:
The present invention provides methods and computer systems for identifying and representing the biological pathways of drug action on a cell The present invention also provides methods and computer systems for assessing the significance of the identified representation and for verifying that the identified pathways are actual pathway of drug action. The present invention also provides methods and computer systems for drug development based on the methods for identifying biological pathways of drug action, and methods and computer systems for representing the biological pathways involved in the effect of an environmental change upon a cell.
摘要:
The present invention provides methods and systems for testing and confirming how well a network model represents a biological pathway in a biological system. The network model comprises a network of logical operators relating input cellular constituents (e.g., mRNA or protein abundances) to output classes of cellular constituents, which are affected by the pathway in the biological system. The methods of this invention provide, first, for choosing complete and efficient experiments for testing the network model which compare relative changes in the biological system in response to perturbations of the network. The methods also provide for determining an overall goodness of fit of the network model to biological system by: predicting from the network model how output classes behave in response to the chosen experiments, finding measures of relative change of cellular constituents actually observed in the chosen experiments, finding goodnesses of fit of each observed cellular constituent to an output class with which the cellular constituent has the strongest correlation, and determining an overall goodness of fit of the network model from the individual goodnesses of fit of each observed cellular constituent. Additionally, these methods provide for testing the significance of the overall goodness of fit according to a nonparametric statistical test using an empirically determined distribution of possible goodnesses of fit. This invention also provides for computer systems for carrying out the computational steps of these methods.
摘要:
A method for fluorophore bias removal in microarray experiments in which the fluorophores used in microarray experiment pairs are reversed. Further, a method for calculating the individual errors associated with each measurement made in nominally repeated microarray experiments. This error measurement is optionally coupled with rank based methods in order to determine a probability that a cellular constituent is up or down regulated in response to a perturbation. Finally, a method for determining the confidence in the weighted average of the expression level of a cellular constituent in nominally repeated microarray experiments.