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Science 18 April 2008:
Vol. 320. no. 5874, pp. 325 - 327
DOI: 10.1126/science.1158343
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Perspectives

MEDICINE:
The Ultimate Model Organism

Atul J. Butte

A deeper understanding of disease requires a database of human traits and disease states that is integrated with molecular information.

Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Department of Medicine and Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA, and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. E-mail: abutte{at}stanford.edu

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