SBV IMPROVER Project Launches New Systems Toxicology Challenge

Dec 21, 2015

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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – The organizers of the Systems Biology Verification: Industrial Methodology for Process Verification in Research (SBV IMPROVER) challenges have begun accepting submissions for a new systems toxicology challenge launched last week which focuses on identifying blood gene expression signatures that could serve as markers of smoking exposure.

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