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Until recently, clinicians didn’t have good tools for personalized genetic analysis.
But that’s changing, thanks to quantitative biology. The discipline merges mathematical, statistical, and computational methods to study living organisms.
Quantitative biologists develop algorithms that chew through big datasets and try to make sense of them. In case of rare genetic disorders, that means analyzing loads of data from multiple patients to understand how their genes work in tandem with each other.
Researchers hope to give clinicians a peek at what their patients’ genes are doing, helping devise personalized therapies.
In recent years, DNA-sequencing technologies have matured to the point where a smart algorithm can parse genetic data from multiple patients and their families—and find tale-telling trends much faster than experiments on rodents can
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