title: What's wrong with correlative experiments?
abstract: Here, we make a case for multivariate measurements in cell biology with minimal perturbation. We discuss how correlative data can identify cause-effect relationships in cellular pathways with potentially greater accuracy than conventional perturbation studies.
authors: Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. Marco_Vilela@hms.harvard.edu
authors: Marco
authors: M
authors: Vilela
authors: Gaudenz
authors: G
authors: Danuser
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003585:Cell Biology / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D015398:Signal Transduction