Penn software helps to identify course of cancer metastasis, tumor 'evolution'

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Tumors also differ among patients with the same type of cancer, so how is a physician able to prescribe a tailored regimen for the patient? Researchers developed Canopy, an approach to infer the evolutionary track of tumor cells by surveying two types of mutations -- somatic copy number alterations and single-nucleotide alterations -- derived from multiple samples taken from a single patient.