Informatics And Visualization Tools For Pharmacogenetics Research

Tom Ferrin, University of California, San Francisco

Stevenson Hall 1300
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

Genetic variation among individuals can play a critical role in their response to drugtherapy. Dosage levels that provide good efficacy in one individual may produce toxic effects in another, or may have little therapeutic effect at all. Understanding and predicting individual drug response will become increasing important in the future and requires the analysis of large amounts of genomic information. This talk will describe one of the current studies underway in this area and discuss the types of data analysis and visualization required to elucidate the pharmacogenetics of a class of proteins known as membrane transporters.