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. 2017 May 11;19(6):1085–1101. doi: 10.1093/bib/bbx049

Table 1.

Databases of cancer mutations

Database URL Statistics Description
COSMIC http://cancer.sanger.ac.uk/cosmic 4M coding mutations, 23 489 publications Curated collection of mutations in cancer includes data from various sources
COSMIC-Cell Lines http://cancer.sanger.ac.uk/cell_lines Exome sequences of 1015 cancer cell lines Filtered variants from extensively used cancer cell lines, including NCI-60 set
COSMIC-WGS http://cancer.sanger.ac.uk/wgs 28 366 samples Large-scale cancer sequencing projects; genome-wide screens
TCGA https://cancergenome.nih.gov 32 cancer types Publicly available catalog of major cancer-causing genomic alterations
PCDP https://www.stjude.org/research/ pediatric-cancer-genome-project.html 2813 samples from 17 cancer types Data from PCGP, TARGET, DKFZ, MAGIC, BROAD, etc.
ICGC http://icgc.org 16 000+ donors, 70 projects and 21 tumor sites Catalog of major cancer-causing genomic alterations obtained as result of large international projects
CCLE https://portals.broadinstitute.org/ccle/home 1074 samples Compilation of genomic data from human cell lines
Risctox database http://risctox.istas.net/en/index.asp? idpagina=607 1750 carcinogenic and mutagenic substances Describes hazardous substances
CBioPortal http://www.cbioportal.org/ 147 cancer studies Includes cancer samples from TCGA, ICGC and other sources
UCSC Cancer Genomics Browser http://xena.ucsc.edu/ 720 data sets including TCGA and CCLE Collection of cancer genomics data with interactive tools