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Bioinformatics and cancer: an essential alliance

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Modern research in cancer has been revolutionized by the introduction of new high-through put methodologies such as DNAmicroarrays. Keeping the pace with these technologies, the bioinformatics offer new solutions for data analysis and, what is more important, it permits to formulate a new class of hypothesis inspired in systems biology, more oriented to blocks of functionally-related genes. Although software implementations for this new methodologies is new there are some options already available. Bioinformatic solutions for other high-throughput techniques such asarray-CGH of large-scale genotyping is also revised.

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Dopazo, J. Bioinformatics and cancer: an essential alliance. Clin Transl Oncol 8, 409–415 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12094-006-0194-6

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