Dr. Kez Cleal, Lecturer in Cancer Bioinformatics, School of Medicine unveiled Genome-Wide (GW), a new software that will allow researchers to explore massive datasets with unprecedented speed, processing 100 times faster than existing tools. The study is published in the journal Nature Methods.

Dr. Cleal said, “This breakthrough is particularly important in cancer research, where understanding large-scale structural changes in the genome is key to unlocking the mechanisms behind the disease.

“With GW, we’re able to dynamically visualize genome-scale changes, giving us the ability to explore and understand complex genetic structures in ways that were not possible before. This opens the door to more efficient cancer research, helping us to quickly identify genetic changes of interest in the cancer genome.”