Challenge
Diagnose and treat Cancer by using Bioinformatics
It is the year 2014 and in this real world Bioinformatics exercise, you will play the role of a Molecular Pathologist. Your job is to analyze cancer at the genomic (DNA) level and to suggest molecular therapies. The human genome ( 3 billion nucleotides of DNA sequence) was first sequenced in 2000 and cost about 3 billion dollars. At present, the cost of sequencing the human genome has decreased to $20,000. It is now economical to sequence the genome of human cancer cells to find out what has gone wrong and predict therapies that may work. In this introductory exercise, a preliminary analysis has been performed to identify sequences in a lung tumor that are different from the normal human sequence. Your job is to determine whether these changes could cause cancer and where possible, suggest molecular therapies.
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