Genome Research publishes special issue: Cancer Genomics

Genome Research (www.genome.org) publishes online and in print today a special issue entitled, "Cancer Genomics," highlighting insights gained form cutting-edge genomic and epigenomic analyses of cancer.

Included in this special issue are novel biological insights gained from genomic analyses of pancreatic cancer, ovarian cancer, and melanoma, including, functional genomic analyses of breast cancer genes, large scale colorectal and breast cancer epigenomics, advances in methodology identifying driver genes and networks in cancer, in genome-wide cancer association analyses, and using next-generation sequencing technology to detect driver mutations.

Additionally, the issue includes unique perspectives from leaders in the field on the translation of cancer genomics to improved outcomes in medicine. The following sections highlight several of the papers published in the issue:

1. Whole-genome and whole-exome sequencing: Searching for the drivers of cancer
2. Circulating free DNA holds clues to cancer diagnosis and risk of relapse
3. Epigenomic analyses shed new light on breast, colon, and prostate cancers
4. Cutting-edge methods to detect the genes and networks that drive cancer