Catalogue Of Somatic Mutations In Cancer

What is COSMIC?

All cancers arise as a result of the acquisition of a series of fixed DNA sequence abnormalities, mutations, many of which ultimately confer a growth advantage upon the cells in which they have occurred. There is a vast amount of information available in the published scientific literature about these changes. COSMIC is designed to store and display somatic mutation information and related details and contains information relating to human cancers. [more]

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4th Nov 2009

COSMIC v44 Release

This release of COSMIC includes 4 new curated genes, 8 new curated fusion pairs and the TCGA systematic screen publication of 91 Glioblastoma tumour samples. ...

26th Aug 2009

COSMIC v43 Release

The COSMIC curation systems have been extended to encompass the entry of large-scale systematic screen papers. ...

Statistics

	Experiments		1631186
	Tumours		419018
	Mutations		101137
	References		8336
	Genes		13501
	Fusions		3521
	Structural Variants		40

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