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Review: Precision medicine and driver mutations: Computational methods, functional assays and conformational principles for interpreting cancer drivers.
PLoS computational biology - 1 Mar 2019
Nussinov Ruth, Jang Hyunbum, Tsai Chung-Jung, Cheng Feixiong
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At the root of the so-called precision medicine or precision oncology, which is our focus here, is the hypothesis that cancer treatment would be considerably better if therapies were guided by a tumor's genomic alterations. This hypothesis has sparked major initiatives focusing on whole-genome and/or exome sequencing, creation of large databases, and developing tools for their statistical analyses-all aspiring to...
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