Before it was a drug,
someone picked one gene
There are about 20,000 genes. Picking one of them and betting that โblocking this cures that diseaseโ is what target discovery means. Get it wrong and the next ten years are wasted.
Over these 20 lessons we take apart the 14 programs one company publishes, one at a time. Starting from what a gene is, all the way to what question names like TNIK, WRN, MAT2A, KIF18A were each an answer to. Python runs right inside this page. There is nothing to install.
How you'll learn
TNIK, WRN, QPCTL โ fourteen cipher-like names, unpacked one at a time. What the gene is, which disease, and why that one.
We start from what a gene is and what a protein is. No biology class required.
Synthetic lethality, deletion, pathway addiction, resistance, selectivity, data. Once the fourteen are sorted into these six boxes you can sort a new one yourself.
Every lesson has a laboratory widget โ turning a gene off, killing a cell, selecting a patient, all with sliders you turn yourself.