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ICGC Study Highlights Challenges in Consistent Somatic Variant Calling, Tips for Improvement

Dec 10, 2015
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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – A new report this week has added to a growing recognition of the challenges faced in calling somatic mutations in cancer genome sequences, despite continued advances in next-gen sequencing technologies and informatics.

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