{"id":118319,"date":"2021-07-20T12:02:54","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T12:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=118319"},"modified":"2021-07-20T12:02:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T12:02:55","slug":"ai-tool-developed-by-iit-m-to-study-cancer-causing-mutations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/ai-tool-developed-by-iit-m-to-study-cancer-causing-mutations\/","title":{"rendered":"AI tool developed by IIT-M to study cancer causing mutations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Which institute has developed an AI tool called NBDriver for use in analysing cancer-causing mutations in cells?<br><\/strong>(a) IIT Madras<br>(b) IIT Kanpur<br>(c) IIT Delhi<br>(d) IIT Roorkee<br><strong>Answer: (a)<br>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Researchers at IIT Madras have developed an AI tool called NBDriver (neighbourhood driver) for use in analysing cancer-causing mutations in cells.<\/li><li>Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven algorithm uses a technique that probes into DNA composition to pinpoint genetic alterations that are held responsible for cancer progression.<\/li><li>Using simple AI techniques, the researchers developed a new prediction algorithm, NBDriver, and tested its performance on several open-source cancer mutation datasets.<\/li><li>NBDriver (NEIGHBORHOOD Driver) is a tool used to differentiate between driver and passenger mutations using features derived from the neighborhood sequences of somatic mutations.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/ai-tool-developed-to-study-cancer-causing-mutations\/article35384379.ece#:~:text=Researchers%20at%20IIT%20Madras%20have,from%20neutral%20%E2%80%9Cpassenger%E2%80%9D%20mutations.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/ai-tool-developed-to-study-cancer-causing-mutations\/article35384379.ece#:~:text=Researchers%20at%20IIT%20Madras%20have,from%20neutral%20%E2%80%9Cpassenger%E2%80%9D%20mutations.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Which institute has developed an AI tool called NBDriver for use in analysing cancer-causing mutations in cells?(a) IIT Madras(b) IIT Kanpur(c) IIT Delhi(d) IIT RoorkeeAnswer: (a)Related facts: Researchers at IIT Madras have developed an AI tool called NBDriver (neighbourhood driver) for use in analysing cancer-causing mutations in cells. Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven algorithm uses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":118320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[2344],"class_list":["post-118319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nnews","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118321,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118319\/revisions\/118321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}