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GeneSapiens - a catalogue of expression of all human genes
Published on 2009-06-23
PhD student Sami Kilpinen, M.Sc., and coworkers at FIMM, VTT, Tampere Technical University and University of Helsinki formed a large consortium to develop a major new resource allowing researchers to rapidly and easily explore levels of expression of any human gene across 43 normal tissues, 68 cancer types and 64 other diseases. The resource - GeneSapiens - collates data from microarray expression analysis of clinical samples from numerous public sources and currently contains over 130 million data points. Available for free at www.genesapiens.org it enables to explore the diagnostic and therapeutic potential of genes.
GeneSapiens has become a widely-used resource for the international scientific community.
Kilpinen S, Autio R, Ojala K, Iljin K, Bucher E, Sara H, Pisto T, Saarela M, Skotheim RI, Björkman M, Mpindi JP, Haapa-Paananen S, Vainio P, Edgren H, Wolf M, Astola J, Nees M, Hautaniemi S, Kallioniemi O. Systematic bioinformatic analysis of expression levels of 17,330 human genes across 9,783 samples from 175 types of healthy and pathological tissues, Genome Biol. 2008; 9(9):R139. doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-9-r139
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