Jake Chen, Ph.D., chief bioinformatics officer at UAB Informatics Institute, is the latest winner of the School of Medicine’s Featured Discovery. This initiative celebrates important research from School of Medicine faculty members.

Chen and colleagues’ paper, “PAGER-CoV: a comprehensive collection of pathways, annotated gene-lists, and gene signatures for coronavirus disease studies,” was recently published in Nucleic Acids Research.

PAGER-CoV is a web-based database curated specifically for COVID-19 functional genomics research. The cutting-edge database holds nearly 12,000 pieces of genetic information called PAGs, which stand for “pathways, annotated gene-lists, and gene-signatures,” 1,549 candidate drug targets, and almost 20 million PAG-to-PAG association relationships on SARS-CoV-2… Continue reading.