METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING A DATA ARCHITECTURE FOR USE IN IDENTIFYING AGENTS FOR SKIN PIGMENTATION

• Main Authors: ZHAO, Wenzhu, XU, Jun, HAKOZAKI, Tomohiro, BINDER, Robert, Lloyd
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 13.12.2017
• Subjects: BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS OR TEST PAPERS THEREFOR; CONDITION-RESPONSIVE CONTROL IN MICROBIOLOGICAL ORENZYMOLOGICAL PROCESSES; ENZYMOLOGY; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTEDFOR SPECIFIC APPLICATION FIELDS; MEASURING OR TESTING PROCESSES INVOLVING ENZYMES, NUCLEICACIDS OR MICROORGANISMS; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; PHYSICS; PROCESSES OF PREPARING SUCH COMPOSITIONS; SPIRITS; VINEGAR; WINE

A method of generating a hyperpigmentation condition gene expression signature for use in identifying connections between perturbagens and genes associated with a skin pigmentation condition. The method includes providing a gene expression profile for a reference sample of human skin cells not affected with a pigmentation condition; generating a gene expression profile for a sample of human skin cells from a subject exhibiting the hyperpigmentation condition; comparing the expression profiles to determine a gene expression signature that includes a set of differentially expressed genes; assigning an identifier to each gene constituting the gene expression signature and ordering the identifiers according to the direction of differential expression to create one or more gene expression signature lists; and storing the one or more gene expression signature lists on at least one computer readable medium.