MUFFINN: Cancer gene discovery via network analysis of somatic mutation data

Genome Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Cho, Ara ^a   Shim, Jung Eun ^a   Kim, Eiru ^a   Supek, Fran ^b,c,d   Lehner, Ben ^b,c   Lee, Insuk ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^d RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Cancer gene prediction; Cancer genomes; Cancer somatic mutation; Functional gene network; Mutation frequency; Pathway centric analysis

Indexed keywords

CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MUTATION RATE; PREDICTION; SOMATIC MUTATION; TUMOR GENE; BIOLOGY; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; MUTATION; NEOPLASM; ONCOGENE; PROCEDURES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOFTWARE;

TUMOR PROTEIN;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MUTATION; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASMS; ONCOGENES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84978062214     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-016-0989-x     Document Type: Article

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