BMCBI
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Background: Systematic approaches for identifying proteins involved in different types of cancer are needed. Experimental techniques such as microarrays are being used to characte...
BMCBI
2007
13 years 11 months ago
2007
Background: Affymetrix SNP arrays can interrogate thousands of SNPs at the same time. This allows us to look at the genomic content of cancer cells and to investigate the underlyi...
BMCBI
2007
13 years 11 months ago
2007
Background: Array comparative genome hybridization (aCGH) provides information about genomic aberrations. Alterations in the DNA copy number may cause the cell to malfunction, lea...
BMCBI
2007
13 years 11 months ago
2007
Background: The four heterogeneous childhood cancers, neuroblastoma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, and Ewing sarcoma present a similar histology of small round blue cell...
BMCBI
2010
13 years 11 months ago
2010
Background: Much of the public access cancer microarray data is asymmetric, belonging to datasets containing no samples from normal tissue. Asymmetric data cannot be used in stand...
BMCBI
2007
13 years 11 months ago
2007
Background: The study of microRNAs (miRNAs) is attracting great considerations. Recent studies revealed that miRNAs play as important regulators of gene expression and some even a...
BMCBI
2010
13 years 11 months ago
2010
Background: Recent advances in proteomics technologies such as SELDI-TOF mass spectrometry has shown promise in the detection of early stage cancers. However, dimensionality reduc...
BMCBI
2010
13 years 11 months ago
2010
Background: Cancer is caused through a multistep process, in which a succession of genetic changes, each conferring a competitive advantage for growth and proliferation, leads to ...
BMCBI
2010
13 years 11 months ago
2010
Background: Extensive biomedical studies have shown that clinical and environmental risk factors may not have sufficient predictive power for cancer prognosis. The development of ...
APBC
2003
14 years 26 days ago
2003
The development of microarray technology has supplied a large volume of data to many fields. In particular, it has been applied to prediction and diagnosis of cancer, so that it e...