Posts Tagged ‘drugtarget’

Zebrafish reveal new insights into the biology of autism | Yale News

April 20, 2026

https://news.yale.edu/2026/04/02/zebrafish-reveal-new-insights-biology-autism?utm_source=YaleToday&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=YT_YaleToday-Faculty_4-7-2026 QT{{” Here, we leverage the strengths of zebrafish as a scalable in vivo system to screen 520 US FDA-approved drugs and establish a database of their effects on sensory processing and arousal behaviors. Using this database, we nominate pharmacological candidates relevant to specific ASD genes or gene subgroups. “}}

Jamadagni, P., Dai, Y., Liu, Y., Mendes, H. W., Pruitt, A., Khan, S., Yang, L., Huang, T., Huang, X., Deans, P. J. M., Balafkan, N., Zhao, D., Xu, G., Liu, Y., Li, N., Wu, W., Fitzpatrick, S. E., Neelakantan, U., Chen, T., . . . Hoffman, E. J. (2026). Pharmaco-behavioral profiling identifies suppressors of autism gene–associated phenotypes in zebrafish. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 123(12), e2518846123. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2518846123

Advancing precision health discovery in a genetically diverse health system: Cell

April 9, 2026

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(26)00274-6

Haas, R., Margolis, M. P., Wei, A., Yamaguchi, T. N., Feng, J., Tran, T., Tozzo, V., Queen, K. J., Mootor, M. F. E., Patil, V., Broudy, M. E., Tung, P., Alam, S., Martinez, D. B., Patel, Y., Caggiano, C., Zeltser, N., Hugh-White, R., Arbet, J., . . . Geschwind, D. H. (2026). Advancing precision health discovery in a genetically diverse health system. Cell. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2026.03.007

Epi dataset

MCB111 Mathematics in Biology

February 22, 2026

http://mcb111.org/w06/w06-lecture.html
Has some nice textbook downloads – e.g.
http://mcb111.org/w06/KollerFriedman.pdf

QT:{{”
There are many good books to learn about probabilistic models. “Probabilistic graphical models: principles and techniques” (by Koller & Friedman) is a comprehensive source about more general probabilistic models than the one we are going to study here.
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Subset of chap 7 focuses on GMRF