Commentary Open Access
Volume 2 | Issue 3 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.33696/cancerimmunol.2.018
Inference of Clonal Copy Number Alterations from RNASequencing Data
Akdes Serin Harmanci1,†, Arif O. Harmanci2,†, Xiaobo Zhou1,3,4,*
- 1Center for Computational Systems Medicine, School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
- 2Center for Precision Health, School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
- 3Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
- 4School of Dentistry, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77054, USA
- †These authors contributed equally to this work
Corresponding Author
Xiaobo Zhou, Xiaobo.Zhou@uth.tmc.edu
Received Date: May 11, 2020
Accepted Date: June 04, 2020
Harmanci AS, Harmanci AO, Zhou X. Inference of Clonal Copy Number Alterations from RNA-Sequencing Data. J Cancer Immunol. 2020; 2(3): 66-68.
Copyright: © 2020 Harmanci AS, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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