A computational tool to detect DNA alterations tailored to formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded samples in cancer clinical sequencing

Abstract Advanced cancer genomics technologies are now being employed in clinical sequencing, where next-generation sequencers are used to simultaneously identify multiple types of DNA alterations for prescription of molecularly targeted drugs. However, no computational tool is available to accurate...

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Main Authors: Mamoru Kato, Hiromi Nakamura, Momoko Nagai, Takashi Kubo, Asmaa Elzawahry, Yasushi Totoki, Yuko Tanabe, Eisaku Furukawa, Joe Miyamoto, Hiromi Sakamoto, Shingo Matsumoto, Kuniko Sunami, Yasuhito Arai, Yutaka Suzuki, Teruhiko Yoshida, Katsuya Tsuchihara, Kenji Tamura, Noboru Yamamoto, Hitoshi Ichikawa, Takashi Kohno, Tatsuhiro Shibata
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-06-01
Series:Genome Medicine
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13073-018-0547-0