title: Not all noise is waste.
abstract: Stochastic profiling, a method to rank heterogeneity of gene expression in a cell population, shows that quantifying cell-to-cell variability has come of age and leads to biological insight.
authors.affiliation: Integrative Cancer Biology Program Center for Cancer Systems Biology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
authors.forename: Vito
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Quaranta
authors.forename: Shawn P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Garbett
mesh_terms: D003584:Cytological Techniques / Q000379:methods*; D005057:Eukaryotic Cells / Q000502:physiology*; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation / Q000502:physiology*; D013269:Stochastic Processes