Purityest: Estimating purity of human tumor samples using next-generation sequencing data

Bioinformatics

Volumn 28, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 2265-2266

  Su, Xiaoping ^a   Zhang, Li ^a   Zhang, Jianping ^a   Meric bernstam, Funda ^a   Weinstein, John N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; NEOPLASMS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84865558202     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts365     Document Type: Article

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