Biomedical Informatics for Cancer Research

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ochs, Michael F. (Editor), Casagrande, John T. (Editor), Davuluri, Ramana V. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Edition: 1.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Molecular biology.; Health informatics.; Oncology.; Popular works.; Medicine & Public Health.; Biomedicine general.; Health Informatics.; Popular Science, general.; Cancer Research.; Molecular Medicine.

In the past two decades, the large investment in cancer research led to identification of the complementary roles of genetic mutation and epigenetic change as the fundamental drivers of cancer. With these discoveries, we now recognize the deep heterogeneity in cancer, in which phenotypically similar...