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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2024

Filed:

Aug. 23, 2018
Applicant:

The General Hospital Corporation, Boston, MA (US);

Inventors:

Wilhelm Haas, Boston, MA (US);

Cyril Benes, Boston, MA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 33/68 (2006.01); G16B 5/00 (2019.01); G16B 40/10 (2019.01); H01J 49/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 33/6848 (2013.01); G01N 33/6845 (2013.01); G16B 5/00 (2019.02); G16B 40/10 (2019.02); H01J 49/0036 (2013.01); G01N 2560/00 (2013.01); G01N 2800/52 (2013.01);
Abstract

The disclosure features methods of identifying specific drug candidates for disease treatment, the methods including: for pairs of associated expressed proteins in a protein-protein interaction network for a plurality of biological samples, comparing relative concentration values of the associated proteins in each of the biological samples to identify outliers among a distribution of the relative concentration values, identifying a set of proteins involved in dysregulated protein-protein interactions in the network based on the outliers, and predicting an efficacy of one or more drug candidates from among a set of drug candidates for treating a disease based on the identified set of proteins and information about one or more of proteins, protein complexes, biological pathways, and functional modules targeted by the set of drug candidates.


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