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SUBMITTER: Forbes S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2361125 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Forbes S S Clements J J Dawson E E Bamford S S Webb T T Dogan A A Flanagan A A Teague J J Wooster R R Futreal P A PA Stratton M R MR
British journal of cancer 20060101 2
The Catalogue Of Somatic Mutations In Cancer (COSMIC) database and web site was developed to preserve somatic mutation data and share it with the community. Over the past 25 years, approximately 350 cancer genes have been identified, of which 311 are somatically mutated. COSMIC has been expanded and now holds data previously reported in the scientific literature for 28 known cancer genes. In addition, there is data from the systematic sequencing of 518 protein kinase genes. The total gene count ...[more]