Title
Cosmic: Mining Complete Cancer Genomes In The Catalogue Of Somatic Mutations In Cancer
Abstract
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 features has become a significant focus; COSMIC has begun curating full-genome resequencing experiments, developing new web pages, export formats and graphics styles. With all genomic information recently updated to GRCh37, COSMIC integrates many diverse types of mutation information and is making much closer links with Ensembl and other data resources.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1093/nar/gkq929
NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Keywords
Field
DocType
somatic mutation,mutation,data mining
Genome,Annotation,COSMIC cancer database,Biology,Web page,Ensembl,Biological database,Cancer Genome Project,Genetics,Cancer
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
39
Database-Issue
0305-1048
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
129
11.92
2
Authors
14
Search Limit
100129
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Simon A Forbes141538.51
Nidhi Bindal240438.12
S Bamford332631.56
Charlotte G Cole427629.10
Chai Yin Kok534033.81
David Beare636829.03
Mingming Jia736641.64
Rebecca Shepherd813715.00
Kenric Leung924020.01
Andrew Menzies1017323.41
Jon W Teague1127629.10
Peter J Campbell1230024.21
Michael R Stratton1335435.32
P Andrew Futreal1424929.54