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Strength in numbers: comparing vaccine signatures the modular way

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Gene-expression signatures of the human vaccine response can be complex and noisy. Li et al. develop a new collection of gene-expression modules and use it to compare the response to five different vaccines.

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Figure 1: Identifying gene modules from gene-expression data.

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Haining, W. Strength in numbers: comparing vaccine signatures the modular way. Nat Immunol 15, 139–141 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/ni.2807

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