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TiMEx: a waiting time model for mutually exclusive cancer alterations.
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) - 1 Apr 2016
Constantinescu Simona, Szczurek Ewa, Mohammadi Pejman, Rahnenführer Jörg, Beerenwinkel Niko
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MOTIVATION: Despite recent technological advances in genomic sciences, our understanding of cancer progression and its driving genetic alterations remains incomplete. RESULTS: We introduce TiMEx, a generative probabilistic model for detecting patterns of various degrees of mutual exclusivity across genetic alterations, which can indicate pathways involved in cancer progression. TiMEx explicitly accounts for the...
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