Future Work

Much of the work done is related to the preprocessing, cleaning, and filtering of the data. A thorough investigation into the additional predictive power of isoform- level covariates on cancer survival should include additional TCGA datasets following the same procedure. A comparison of our results with a replication on non-TCGA breast cancer survival data could also yield interesting findings.

Alternatively, testing the discriminative power of concordance using a known data-generating process would aid in the interpretation of results on real world data. This could also be used to validate our preprocessing and filtering techniques.

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