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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 9.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Rev Clin Oncol. 2014 Feb 4;11(3):167–176. doi: 10.1038/nrclinonc.2014.6

Table 1.

Project Website
TCGA (The Cancer Genome Project) http://cancergenome.nih.gov/
 TCGA performs comprehensive genomic characterisation and analysis of multiple cancer types to drive the understanding of the molecular basis of cancer

ICGC (International Cancer Genome Consortium) http://icgc.org/
 ICGC is focused on a comprehensive understanding of the genomic abnormalities in cancer

SU2C (Stand Up to Cancer) http://www.standup2cancer.org/
 SU2C aims to drive innovative cancer research through interdisciplinary science

LINCS (Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signatures) http://www.lincsproject.org/
 LINCS aims to enhance a network-based understanding of biology, cataloging changes in gene expression and other cellular processes in response to perturbations

Sanger Institute databases http://www.sanger.ac.uk/resources/databases
 The institute has developed a suite of databases to manage and interpret large-scale data

cBioPortal for Cancer Genomics http://www.cbioportal.org/public-portal/
 CBIO is a platform to visualise, analyse and download large scale genomic data sets

The Human Protein Atlas http://www.proteinatlas.org/
 The atlas aims to explore the human proteome systematically through antibody-based proteomics

The Cancer proteome atlas http://app1.bioinformatics.mdanderson.org/tcpa/_design/basic/index.html
 The atlas aims to provide a comprehensive resource for accessing, visualising, and analysing cancer functional proteomics

TCGA data portal https://tcga-data.nci.nih.gov/tcga/
 A platform for researchers to search, download, and analyse data sets generated by TCGA

Cytoscape http://www.cytoscape.org/
 Cytoscope is an open source platform for visualising complex networks and integrating the networks with other data types

Vcell http://www.nrcam.uchc.edu/
 The Virtual cell is a computational platform to model and simulate cell biology

COPASI http://www.copasi.org/tiki-view_articles.php
 COPASI is a platform to simulate and analyse networks and their dynamics

Netwalker https://netwalkersuite.org/
 Netwalker is a platform to assist in functional analyses of large-scale genomics datasets focused on molecular networks

SageBio http://sagebase.org/
 SageBio creates platforms to enable collaboration on data and data sharing.
 They also run challenges on complex biomedical problems

STRING http://string-db.org/
 String is a database of known and predicted physical and functional protein interactions

GeneCards http://www.genecards.org/
 GeneCards provides a database of human genes with comprehensive information on all known and predicted human genes.

Pathway Commons http://www.pathwaycommons.org/about/
 Pathway Commons is a portal to access biological pathway information collected from public pathway databases
DREAM (Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessments and Methods) http://www.the-dream-project.org/
 DREAM aims to be a catalyser for the interaction between experiment and theory focused on cellular network inference and quantitative model building

ICBP (Integrated Cancer Biology Program) http://icbp.nci.nih.gov/
 ICBP develops and implements computational models of cancer processes