Transforming RNA-Seq gene expression to track cancer progression in the multi-stage early to advanced-stage cancer development

• Michelle Livesey,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation South African Medical Research Council Bioinformatics Unit, South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Sophia Catherine Rossouw,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation South African Medical Research Council Bioinformatics Unit, South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Renette Blignaut,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Statistics and Population Studies, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Alan Christoffels,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation South African Medical Research Council Bioinformatics Unit, South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Hocine Bendou

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hocine@sanbi.ac.za

  Affiliation South African Medical Research Council Bioinformatics Unit, South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5371-6107

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