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TRONCO: an R package for the inference of cancer progression models from heterogeneous genomic data.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

We introduce TRanslational ONCOlogy (TRONCO), an open-source R package that implements the state-of-the-art algorithms for the inference of cancer progression models from (epi)genomic mutational profiles. TRONCO can be used to extract population-level models describing the trends of accumulation of alterations in a cohort of cross-sectional samples, e.g. retrieved from publicly available databases, and individual-level models that reveal the clonal evolutionary history in single cancer patients, when multiple samples, e.g. multiple biopsies or single-cell sequencing data, are available. The resulting models can provide key hints for uncovering the evolutionary trajectories of cancer, especially for precision medicine or personalized therapy.

Availability and implementation

TRONCO is released under the GPL license, is hosted at http://bimib.disco.unimib.it/ (Software section) and archived also at bioconductor.org.

Contact

tronco@disco.unimib.it

Supplementary information

Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

SUBMITTER: De Sano L

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6280783 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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TRONCO: an R package for the inference of cancer progression models from heterogeneous genomic data.

De Sano Luca L Caravagna Giulio G Ramazzotti Daniele D Graudenzi Alex A Mauri Giancarlo G Mishra Bud B Antoniotti Marco M

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 20160209 12

<h4>Motivation</h4>We introduce TRanslational ONCOlogy (TRONCO), an open-source R package that implements the state-of-the-art algorithms for the inference of cancer progression models from (epi)genomic mutational profiles. TRONCO can be used to extract population-level models describing the trends of accumulation of alterations in a cohort of cross-sectional samples, e.g. retrieved from publicly available databases, and individual-level models that reveal the clonal evolutionary history in sing ...[more]

PMID: 26861821

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Dataset Information

TRONCO: an R package for the inference of cancer progression models from heterogeneous genomic data.

Motivation

Availability and implementation

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Supplementary information

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TRONCO: an R package for the inference of cancer progression models from heterogeneous genomic data.

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