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COSMIC: mining complete cancer genomes in the Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer

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COSMIC: mining complete cancer genomes in the Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer
COSMIC (http://www.sanger.ac.uk/cosmic) curates comprehensive information on somatic mutations in human cancer. Release v48 (July 2010) describes over 136 000 coding mutations in almost 542 000 tumour samples; of the 18 490 genes documented, 4803 (26%) have one or more mutations. Full scientific literature curations are available on 83 major cancer genes and 49 fusion gene pairs (19 new cancer genes and 30 new fusion pairs this year) and this number is continually increasing. Key amongst these is TP53, now available through a collaboration with the IARC p53 database. In addition to data from the Cancer Genome Project (CGP) at the Sanger Institute, UK, and The Cancer Genome Atlas project (TCGA), large systematic screens are also now curated. Major website upgrades now make these data much more mineable, with many new selection filters and graphics. A Biomart is now available allowing more automated data mining and integration with other biological databases. Annotation of genomic featu...
Simon A. Forbes, Nidhi Bindal, Sally Bamford, Char
Added 16 Sep 2011
Updated 16 Sep 2011
Type Journal
Year 2011
Where NAR
Authors Simon A. Forbes, Nidhi Bindal, Sally Bamford, Charlotte Cole, Chai Yin Kok, David Beare, Mingming Jia, Rebecca Shepherd, Kenric Leung, Andrew Menzies, Jon W. Teague, Peter J. Campbell, Michael R. Stratton, P. Andrew Futreal
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