This Week in Science

Aug 18, 2017

In Science this week, a team of Swedish scientists reports a new open-access database that enables the genome-wide examination of the effects of individual proteins on cancer outcomes. Using systems-level approaches, the researchers analyzed the genome-wide transcriptome of protein-coding genes of 17 major cancer types with respect to clinical outcome.

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