"Our new statistical techniques, known as GeneRave, have applications in diagnostics, toxicogenomics and pharmacogenomics," says Dr Mitchell. "GeneRave enables us to rapidly sift through the very large numbers of gene expression measurements that are generated by microarray experiments in order to identify the smallest set of genes that form the best predictive set."

"We are looking at better ways of analysing microarray data to enable faster drug discovery, personalised medicine and development of simpler clinical diagnostic tests," he says.

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