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ReviewGenes2024

A Comprehensive Review of Bioinformatics Tools for Genomic Biomarker Discovery Driving Precision Oncology.

Alexis J Clark, James W Lillard

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Review in Genes, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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39citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Alexis J ClarkDepartment of Microbiology, Biochemistry, and Immunology, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30310, USA.ORCID 0009-0005-0877-5630
James W LillardDepartment of Microbiology, Biochemistry, and Immunology, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30310, USA.

Funding

Research Training & Career Development ProgramU54CA118638 · NCI · MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI Desiree Avia Rivers · 2005 to 2026
$22.7M
TISSUE CULTURE MODEL FOR RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA--A MOLECULAR APPROACHR25GM058268 · NIGMS · MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI HARRIS-HOOKER, SANDRA, STILES, JONATHAN K. · 1998 to 2023
$16.5M
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Accelerate Precision Health ProgramNCI NIH HHS U54 CA118638NIGMS NIH HHS R25 GM058268NIH HHS 1R25GM058268-20A1NIH HHS 1U54CA118638-18A1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The rapid advancement of high-throughput technologies, particularly next-generation sequencing (NGS), has revolutionized cancer research by enabling the investigation of genetic variations such as SNPs, copy number variations, gene expression, and protein levels. These technologies have elevated the significance of precision oncology, creating a demand for biomarker identification and validation. This review explores the complex interplay of oncology, cancer biology, and bioinformatics tools, highlighting the challenges in statistical learning, experimental validation, data processing, and quality control that underpin this transformative field. This review outlines the methodologies and applications of bioinformatics tools in cancer genomics research, encompassing tools for data structuring, pathway analysis, network analysis, tools for analyzing biomarker signatures, somatic variant interpretation, genomic data analysis, and visualization tools. Open-source tools and repositories like The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), Genomic Data Commons (GDC), cBioPortal, UCSC Genome Browser, Array Express, and Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) have emerged to streamline cancer omics data analysis. Bioinformatics has significantly impacted cancer research, uncovering novel biomarkers, driver mutations, oncogenic pathways, and therapeutic targets. Integrating multi-omics data, network analysis, and advanced ML will be pivotal in future biomarker discovery and patient prognosis prediction.

Indexed as

Biomarkers, TumorComputational BiologyGenomicsNeoplasmsPrecision MedicineHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansBiomarkers, Tumorbioinformaticsbiomarker discoveryoncologypredictive algorithmsRNA-Seq

Identifiers

PMID39202397
PMCPMC11353282

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