Title
Design of the TRONCO BioConductor Package for TRanslational ONCOlogy.
Abstract
Models of cancer progression provide insights on the order of accumulation of genetic alterations during cancer development. Algorithms to infer such models from the currently available mutational profiles collected from different cancer patients (cross-sectional data) have been defined in the literature since late the 90s. These algorithms differ in the way they extract a graphical model of the events modelling the progression, e.g., somatic mutations or copy-number alterations. TRONCO is an R package for TRanslational ONcology which provides a series of functions to assist the user in the analysis of cross-sectional genomic data and, in particular, it implements algorithms that aim to model cancer progression by means of the notion of selective advantage. These algorithms are proved to outperform the current state-of-the-art in the inference of cancer progression models. TRONCO also provides functionalities to load input cross-sectional data, set up the execution of the algorithms, assess the statistical confidence in the results, and visualize the models.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.32614/rj-2016-032
R JOURNAL
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
8
2
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2073-4859
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marco Antoniotti110218.50
Giulio Caravagna215616.46
Luca De Sano300.34
Alex Graudenzi49017.99
G. Mauri5115.67
Bud Mishra61368219.91
Daniele Ramazzotti73610.54