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Thursday, November 01, 2012 6:03 AM PDT

Insight: Crunching the numbers to boost odds against cancer Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News Thu, 01 Nov 2012 03:07 AM PDT FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Software engineers are moving to the fore in the war on cancer, designing programmes that sift genetic sequencing data at lightning speed and minimal cost to identify patterns in tumors that could lead to the next medical breakthrough. Their analysis aims to pinpoint the mutations in our genetic code that drive cancers as diverse as breast, ovarian and bowel. The more ...

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