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big data, cancer, covid-19, embryonic development, diabetes, gene editing, cardiovascular diseases, rare diseases, ageing, supercomputing
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Modesto Orozco

Molecular Modelling and Bioinformatics group lead at IRB Barcelona

Nuria López-Bigas

Head of the Biomedical Cancer Genomics group at IRB Barcelona, ICREA research professor at IRB Barcelona and associate professor at Pompeu Fabra University

Toni Gabaldón

ICREA research professor and head of the Comparative Genomics group at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS).

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Reactions to the finding of new combinations of mutations, 'mutational signatures', associated with specific cancers

Whole genome analysis of more than 12,000 tumors has identified new patterns of mutations associated with specific cancers. These combinations generate specific mutational signatures, the study of which provides information on environmental factors causing the mutations. The work is published in Science.