Identifying network biomarkers of cancer by sample-specific differential network.
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SUBMITTER: Zhang Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9202129 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun
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Identifying network biomarkers of cancer by sample-specific differential network.
Zhang Yu Y Chang Xiao X Xia Jie J Huang Yanhong Y Sun Shaoyan S Chen Luonan L Liu Xiaoping X
BMC bioinformatics 20220615 1
Abundant datasets generated from various big science projects on diseases have presented great challenges and opportunities, which contributed to unfolding the complexity of diseases. The discovery of disease-associated molecular networks for each individual plays an important role in personalized therapy and precision treatment of cancer-based on the reference networks. However, there are no effective ways to distinguish the consistency of different reference networks. In this study, we develop ...[more]
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