Time-Series Copy Number Variation Analysis

Time-series copy number variation (CNV) analysis is a computational genomics pipeline that characterizes chromosomal gains and losses across multiple sequential samples from the same individual or tumor. By comparing copy number profiles at successive time points — such as diagnosis, mid-treatment, relapse — it reconstructs the clonal dynamics and evolutionary trajectories driving genome instability, enabling researchers to track how sub-populations expand, contract, or acquire new aberrations over time.