by Angela Guess
Ryan McBride of FierceBiotechIT reports, “The CHDI Foundation has put faith in the power of big-data analytics to address the lack of good drugs for Huntington’s disease. The group has formed an alliance with GNS Healthcare to build computer models of the genetic brain disease for use in labs to discover potential new therapies.”
McBride goes on, “While researchers have understood the genetic cause of Huntington’s for years, the underlying mechanisms that drive the neurodegenerative disorder aren’t as well known. And though labs have generated loads of data from DNA sequencing, cell-signaling and gene-expression experiments, the tricky part has been pulling all those findings together to understand what’s really happening in the disorder. The foundation hopes that GNS’s big-data analytics platform, which involves reverse engineering and forward simulation, can integrate the stockpiles of data and generate some computer-enabled hypotheses on how all the many parts fit together in a computer model.”
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