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New open-source software judges accuracy of computer predictions of cancer genetics

4 years ago
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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200110104429.htm

Because simple clinical methods to test for genetic variation are vulnerable to missing a lot of cell-to-cell variability, recent computer tools have been developed to predict and characterise genetic diversity within clinical tumour samples. However, there is no existing common benchmarking approach to determine the most accurate computational methods.

The study, published in Nature Biotechnology, developed open-source software that can be used to judge the accuracy of computer predictions and establish this benchmark.