Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, developed a new instrument that helps to visualize and analyze data from studies aimed at improving cancer treatment. Now it is possible to discover complex genetic roots of the disease.

The browser represents a kit of web-based tools used to help scientists find patterns in the large amounts of clinical and genomic data, which has been gathered in all cancer studies.

This browser will benefit much in identifying genetic signatures and other "biomarkers" in cancer cells, which can help to predict the individual response of patient to course of their treatment.

So, the powerful technologies for genome analysis and DNA sequencing are now used to understand cancer at the molecular level.

Each of the tests programmed in a new browser provides millions of measurements, and the result is a bad case of data overload," says doctor Haussler. "But the benefit is that researchers can upload their data and visualize their results."

"What is amazing about the browser is that it gives an opportunity to compare complex molecular data and individual clinical observations. This provides a view to ways for improvement of treatment made. " said Esserman, director of the Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center and associate director of the Breast Oncology Program at the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCSF.

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