What Are Some Popular Bioinformatics Tools Used in Cancer Research?
Several bioinformatics tools are widely used in cancer research:
1. [BLAST](https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi): Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) is used to compare nucleotide or protein sequences to sequence databases and identify similarities. 2. [GATK](https://gatk.broadinstitute.org/hc/en-us): Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK) is a powerful tool for variant discovery in high-throughput sequencing data. 3. [TCGA](https://www.cancer.gov/about-nci/organization/ccg/research/structural-genomics/tcga): The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) provides a comprehensive resource of genomic, epigenomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic data from various cancer types. 4. [cBioPortal](https://www.cbioportal.org/): cBioPortal offers visualization, analysis, and download of large-scale cancer genomics data sets. 5. [Bioconductor](https://www.bioconductor.org/): An open-source software project that provides tools for the analysis and comprehension of high-throughput genomic data.
