Brain cancer researchers have a new, panoramic visualization tool to help them navigate the complex disease. Built from several publicly available datasets of gene expression and DNA sequences, the new brain cancer landscape acts like a city-wide map of the disease, carefully assembled from neighborhood maps of different brain tumor subtypes.
“As researchers, we can get so focused on comparing like with like that we lose sight of the proverbial forest for focusing too much on the leaves of a single tree,” wrote Holland Lab computational biologist Sonali Arora, MS, in the paper describing the tool, published in Scientific Reports in March.
