Title
COSMIC: exploring the world's knowledge of somatic mutations in human cancer.
Abstract
COSMIC, the Catalogue Of Somatic Mutations In Cancer (http://cancer.sanger.ac.uk) is the world's largest and most comprehensive resource for exploring the impact of somatic mutations in human cancer. Our latest release (v70; Aug 2014) describes 2 002 811 coding point mutations in over one million tumor samples and across most human genes. To emphasize depth of knowledge on known cancer genes, mutation information is curated manually from the scientific literature, allowing very precise definitions of disease types and patient details. Combination of almost 20 000 published studies gives substantial resolution of how mutations and phenotypes relate in human cancer, providing insights into the stratification of mutations and biomarkers across cancer patient populations. Conversely, our curation of cancer genomes (over 12 000) emphasizes knowledge breadth, driving discovery of unrecognized cancer-driving hotspots and molecular targets. Our high-resolution curation approach is globally unique, giving substantial insight into molecular biomarkers in human oncology. In addition, COSMIC also details more than six million noncoding mutations, 10 534 gene fusions, 61 299 genome rearrangements, 695 504 abnormal copy number segments and 60 119 787 abnormal expression variants. All these types of somatic mutation are annotated to both the human genome and each affected coding gene, then correlated across disease and mutation types.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1093/nar/gku1075
NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Field
DocType
Volume
Genome,COSMIC cancer database,Biology,Point mutation,Cancer Genome Project,Human genome,Genetics,Germline mutation,Cancer,Mutation
Journal
43
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
D1
0305-1048
105
PageRank 
References 
Authors
6.12
5
17
Search Limit
100105
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Simon A Forbes141538.51
David Beare236829.03
Prasad Gunasekaran31128.46
Kenric Leung424020.01
Nidhi Bindal540438.12
Harry Boutselakis61056.12
Minjie Ding71056.12
S Bamford832631.56
Charlotte G Cole927629.10
Sari Ward1015510.41
Chai Yin Kok1134033.81
Mingming Jia1236641.64
Tisham De131498.43
Jon W Teague1427629.10
Michael R Stratton1535435.32
Ultan McDermott1622314.10
Peter J Campbell1730024.21