Efficient algorithms to discover alterations with complementary functional association in cancer.

Recent large cancer studies have measured somatic alterations in an unprecedented number of tumours. These large datasets allow the identification of cancer-related sets of genetic alterations by identifying relevant combinatorial patterns. Among such patterns, mutual exclusivity has been employed b...

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Main Authors: Rebecca Sarto Basso, Dorit S Hochbaum, Fabio Vandin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-05-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006802