Visualizing and Interpreting Cancer Genomics Data Via the Xena Platform

Overview

Journal Nat Biotechnol

Specialty Biotechnology

Date 2020 May 24

PMID 32444850

Citations 1932

Authors

Mary J Goldman

Brian Craft

Mim Hastie

Kristupas Repecka

Fran McDade

Akhil Kamath

Ayan Banerjee

Yunhai Luo

Dave Rogers

Angela N Brooks

Jingchun Zhu

David Haussler

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