Sequencing Cancer Genomes--Targeted Cancer Therapies

Applying DNA sequencing to cancer genomes is providing insights that have allowed researchers to turn some cancers into chronic diseases rather than deadly ones. Still, the ultimate goal is to kill the cancer. Featuring interviews with Charles Sawyers (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center), Mike Stratton (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute), and Science's Jocelyn Kaiser. Produced by Robert Frederick.

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[ScienceMag]

Sorry the video gave you the impression that the Sanger Institute's only activity is sequencing cancer genomes. Search for the institute on the web and you will see they are doing much, much more. And indeed, physics and mathematicians are involved in trying to understand cancer -- with the data from cancer-genome-sequencing projects helpful as inputs.

[raphaelvalentino]

Its time to use principle of physics and mathematics to understand cancer. You can't simplify cancer to mutations in the genome. It is very naive to think that mutation in the genome alone is the cause of cancer. Therefore it is total waste to have a whole institute like Sanger institute solely focused on sequencing the genome.