A metadata approach for clinical data management in translational genomics studies in breast cancer

• Main Authors: Davies Jim (Author), Maccallum Peter (Author), Morris Lorna (Author), Crichton Charles (Author), Papatheodorou Irene (Author), Brenton James D (Author), Caldas Carlos (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2009-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>In molecular profiling studies of cancer patients, experimental and clinical data are combined in order to understand the clinical heterogeneity of the disease: clinical information for each subject needs to be linked to tumour sampl...