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Published in final edited form as: Nat Biotechnol. 2018 Jan 10;36(1):46–60. doi: 10.1038/nbt.4017

Table 2. Online resources for precision oncology studies.

A list of online portals and databases catering to different data analysis requirements for precision oncology.

Data portals for mutations and/or germline variations Website
1000 Genomes Project, global reference for human genetic variation http://www.1000genomes.org/
Cancer genomics data portal_ICGC https://dcc.icgc.org/
Cancer genomics data portal_TCGA https://tcga-data.nci.nih.gov/docs/publications/tcga/
cBioPortal, visualization, analysis and download of cancer genomics data http://www.cbioportal.org
ClinVar, Database of genomic variants related to human health http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clinvar
COSMIC, Catalog of somatic mutations in cancer http://cancer.sanger.ac.uk/cosmic/
dbGAP, Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gap
dbNSFP, Database of Functional Predictions for SNVs https://sites.google.com/site/jpopgen/dbNSFP
dbSNP, Database of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/snp
dbVar, Database of genomic structural variations http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/dbvar
DoCM, Database of Curated Mutations http://docm.genome.wustl.edu/about
Ensemble Variant Effect Predictor http://useast.ensembl.org/info/docs/tools/vep/index.html
ExAC, Exome Aggregation Consortium http://exac.broadinstitute.org/
Exome Variant Server http://evs.gs.washington.edu/EVS
Genome Modeling Tools, Washington Univ. St. Louis http://gmt.genome.wustl.edu
Human Gene Mutation Database http://www.hgmd.org
IARC (WHO) TP53 mutation Database http://p53.iarc.fr
Intogen mutational cancer drivers database https://www.intogen.org/search
IGV, Integrative Genomics Viewer http://software.broadinstitute.org/software/igv/
LOVD, Leiden Open Variation Database http://www.lovd.nl
MuSiC, Mutational significance in cancer genomes http://tvap.genome.wustl.edu/tools/music/
Pediatric Cancer Genome Project http://explore.pediatriccancergenomeproject.org/
SRA, Short Reads Archive http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra
The Turnkey Variant Analysis Project http://tvap.genome.wustl.edu/
UCSC Cancer Genome Browser https://genome-cancer.ucsc.edu/
Xena, Integration/visualization of in-house data with public data http://xena.ucsc.edu/
 
Data portals for integration of -omics data with clinical interpretation/resources
AACR_Project Genomics Evidence Neoplasia Information Exchange (GENIE) http://www.aacr.org/Research/Research/Pages/aacr-project-genie.aspx#.WMs4uWfau70
Cancer Commons knowledgebase https://www.cancercommons.org/patients-caregivers/
Cancer Resource http://data-analysis.charite.de/care/
CancerLinQ http://cancerlinq.org/
CIViC, Clinical interpretations of variants in cancer https://civic.genome.wustl.edu
Clinical Trials http://clinicaltrials.gov
CollabRx http://www.collabrx.com/
Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) https://emerge.mc.vanderbilt.edu/
Gene cards http://www.genecards.org/
GeneInsight http://geneinsight.com/
Genetic Testing Registry https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gtr/
Genomic Data Commons https://gdc.cancer.gov/
GTEX, genotype-tissue expresssion data http://www.gtexportal.org/home/
Malacards http://www.malacards.org/
My Cancer Genome, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center http://www.mycancergenome.org/
N-of-One, clinical interpretation service http://n-of-one.com/
Personalized Cancer Therapy https://pct.mdanderson.org/#/
Pubmed Clinical https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/clinical
NIH Collaboratory https://www.nihcollaboratory.org
 
Data portals providing gene-drug knowledgebase
Cancer Driver Log https://candl.osu.edu/
DGIdb, The drug gene interaction database http://dgidb.genome.wustl.edu/
Drugs@FDA: FDA Approved Drug Products http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/daf/index.cfm
Drug Bank http://www.drugbank.ca/about
Gene Drug Knowledge Database https://www.synapse.org/#!Synapse:syn2370773/wiki/
IUPHAR/BPS, guide to pharmacology http://www.guidetopharmacology.org/download.jsp
NCI Drug Dictionary https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-drug
Personalized cancer Therapy, MD Anderson Cancer Center https://pct.mdanderson.org
Pharmacogenomics Research Network sequence platform http://www.pgrn.org/
PharmaGKB https://www.pharmgkb.org/
SuperTarget http://bioinf-apache.charite.de/supertarget_v2/
TARGET, Tumor alterations relevant for genomics-driven therapy http://www.broadinstitute.org/cancer/cga/target
TTD, Therapeutic Targets Database http://xin.cz3.nus.edu.sg/group/ttd/ttd.asp