The People We Have to Thank In Our Comparison of Tools for Fitting Mutational Signatures

by The Mutation PublicationMarch 18th, 2024

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This paper is available on arxiv under CC 4.0 license. The authors thank Charlotte Ng and Peter Degen for their useful feedback. For confidential support call the Samaritans on 08457 90 90 90, visit a local Samaritans branch or see www.samaritans.org.

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This paper is available on arxiv under CC 4.0 license.

Authors:

(1) Matu´s Medo, Department for BioMedical Research, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Department of Radiation Oncology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern and [email protected];

(2) Michaela Medova, Department for BioMedical Research, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, and Department of Radiation Oncology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern.

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Abstract & Introduction

Results

Discussion

Materials and methods

Acknowledgement & References

Supporting Information

Acknowledgement

We thank Charlotte Ng and Peter Degen for their useful feedback.

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