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Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access originally published online on July 8, 2008
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2008 100(14):983-987; doi:10.1093/jnci/djn248
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NEWS

CSI: BIOINFORMATICS

Forensic Bioinformatician Aims To Solve Mysteries of Biomarker Studies

Liz Savage

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Keith Baggerly, Ph.D., is not a detective in the traditional sense—he doesn’t solve mysteries or fight crime. But his job does involve digging through data to get to the truth. Instead of reconstructing crime scenes, Baggerly spends part of his time reconstructing scientific analyses, a new field that many call forensic bioinformatics.


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  		Keith Baggerly Ph.D.

 
In recent years, the new "-omics" sciences, including proteomics and genomics, have excited researchers with their potential for revealing the secrets of cancer. Yet they have also brought a new level of complexity to the cancer field, and with it concerns about validation and reproducibility. And that's where Baggerly comes in.

To correctly apply the new genomic findings to the patients at hand, the analyses that produced . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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