METHODS OF PROFILING GENE EXPRESSION, PROTEIN OR METABOLITE LEVELS

摘要

The present invention relates to methods of analysing gene expression, metabolite or protein levels, the use of such methods to generate distinctive profiles of a cell, and the use of such profiles in the diagnosis of disease and mode of action of novel compounds used in the treatment of a cell. These simplified methods of obtaining molecular profiles of a cell have the advantage that they allow the skilled man to produce a profile of the levels of a chosen class of molecules in a cell, which may be used to distinguish between different treatments or different cellular states, whilst being produced from fewer data than are typically used in the production of existing profiles.