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Onco-proteogenomics

With the advancement of sequencing technologies, whole genome sequence information can be obtained robustly in a fairly short time and at low cost. Yet, currently there is often a lack of connection of genomic data to proteomic data, probably due to the fact that standard proteomics workflows rely on databases of only known wild-type/canonical proteins, but these databases generally do not integrate the data of cancer-associated proteins with countless amino acid sequence alterations due to gene mutations, post-translational modifications, and aberrant chromosome rearrangement. Therefore, in the next phase, it becomes extremely important to integrate experimentally-generated Mass Spectrometric data accordingly with the genomic information to identify tumor-specific proteins and isoforms.

Onco-proteogenomics has great promise and holds the key in improving our understanding of cancer biology and it is anticipated that the routine utilization of this integrated omics approach would become one of the gold standards of precision oncology. In this collection, we welcome original articles focusing on cancer proteogenomics research.

Articles (28 in this collection)