Month: November 2013
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UCSC team wins cancer genomics competition
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office A team of bioinformatics experts at UC Santa Cruz made the most accurate predictions in a competitive challenge to identify signaling networks in breast cancer cells. The results of the HPN-DREAM breast cancer network inference challenge were announced November 8 at a conference in Toronto. “Our goal is to understand the underlying…
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Hitachi sponsors UCSC research in cancer genomics and data storage
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office Two areas of expertise at UC Santa Cruz—genomics and data storage—are brought together under a new research agreement sponsored by Hitachi. The agreement provides funding for cancer genomics research and the development of a “Genomics Medicine Integrated System,” a pilot information system for evaluating clinical and genomic data…