Wellcome Sanger Institute – COSMIC’s 100th version is now live
Wellcome Sanger Institute shared a post on LinkedIn:
“COSMIC’s 100th version is now live
A compilation of two decades of work, v100 contains over 307,000 newly added genomic variants, taking the overall number to more than 24 million.
COSMIC (Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer), based at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, is the world’s largest and most comprehensive resource for genetic mutations relating to human cancers. It can be used to explore new potential therapeutic targets and characterise a cancer’s mutational landscape.
This latest version includes novel mutations from 4,482 tumour samples, with a particular focus on the role of BRAF and RAS genes in cancer.
Additionally, v100 will include the brand new collection: Experimental Signatures. This gives users the opportunity to observe the patterns of mutations resulting from different exposures across species, including model organisms. ”