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Proceedings: The Applications of Bioinformatics in Cancer Detection Workshop
Author(s) -
KAPETANOVIC IZET M.,
UMAR ASAD,
KHAN JAVED
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1196/annals.1310.002
Subject(s) - identification (biology) , cancer , computer science , cancer detection , bioinformatics , data science , medicine , biology , botany
A bstract : The Division of Cancer Prevention of the National Cancer Institute sponsored and organized the Applications of Bioinformatics in Cancer Detection Workshop on August 6‐7, 2002. The goal of the workshop was to evaluate the state of the science of bioinformatics and determine how it may be used to assist early cancer detection, risk identification, risk assessment, and risk reduction. This paper summarizes the proceedings of this conference and points out future directions for research.