SomaticCancerAlterations-package: Somatic Cancer Alterations

In juliangehring/SomaticCancerAlterations: Somatic Cancer Alterations

Description

A collection of studies with somatic cancer alterations.

Details

The 'SomaticCancerAlterations' package provides a collection of the mutational calls for different cancer studies, aiming for a tight integration with R and Bioconductor. At the moment, this covers somatic single nucleotide variants (SNVs) and indels for several TCGA studies. Over time, this colletion will be updated to include additional studies.

The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) is a consortium effort to analyze a variety of tumor types at multiple levels, including gene expression, methylation, copy number alterations and somatic mutations [http://cancergenome.nih.gov]. Most of this data is publically available, and offers a rich resource in understanding cancer-related data sets and experiments [https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/TCGA/TCGA+Home].

Author(s)

Julian Gehring, with suggestions and contributions from Bernd Fischer

Maintainer: Julian Gehring

References

https://tcga-data.nci.nih.gov/tcga/

https://tcga-data.nci.nih.gov/docs/publications/

See Also

SomaticCancerAlterations-functions

SomaticCancerAlterations-data

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