Approaches for the identification of driver mutations in cancer: A tutorial from a computational perspective.

Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Jorge Francisco CutigiAdenilso Simao

Abstract

Cancer is a complex disease caused by the accumulation of genetic alterations during the individual's life. Such alterations are called genetic mutations and can be divided into two groups: (1) Passenger mutations, which are not responsible for cancer and (2) Driver mutations, which are significant for cancer and responsible for its initiation and progression. Cancer cells undergo a large number of mutations, of which most are passengers, and few are drivers. The identification of driver mutations is a key point and one of the biggest challenges in Cancer Genomics. Many computational methods for such a purpose have been developed in Cancer Bioinformatics. Such computational methods are complex and are usually described in a high level of abstraction. This tutorial details some classical computational methods, from a computational perspective, with the transcription in an algorithmic format towards an easy access by researchers.

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