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Casting the molecular net

Scientists at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created a new computational method called NetworKIN. This method uses biological networks to better identify relationships between molecules. In a cover story featured in the June 29, 2007, edition of the journal Cell, the scientists report insights into the regulation of protein networks that will ultimately help to target human disease.

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