Cancer Genome Sequencing

At last month’s TCGA (The Cancer Genome Atlas) Scientific Symposium, open source tools for somatic calling were reviewed by Andrey Sivachenko of the Broad Institute.  In this video clip from the symposium, Sivachenko shows early evidence that an investigator benefits from overlapping the results from multiple callers.  The NIH-funded TCGA program has released data for more than 4,000 cases of human cancer so far, and promises to be a definitive resource for cancer investigation.  Links to TCGA Symposium video and slides can be found here...