A novel independence test for somatic alterations in cancer shows that biology drives mutual exclusivity but chance explains co-occurrence
Sander Canisius, John Martens, Lodewyk Wessels
This paper introduces DISCOVER, a new statistical test for analyzing somatic alterations in cancer, showing it outperforms existing methods and reveals more mutual exclusivity than co-occurrence.
bioRxiv · Aug 3, 2016Bioinformatics