Charlotte G Cole
Senior Database Curator
Charlotte is a biocurator for the Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer (COSMIC) database. Her expertise is in literature curation, with specialist knowledge of somatic mutation profiles of cancer genes and a focus on blood cancers.
My timeline
Joined the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Cancer Genome Project, working in the Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer (COSMIC) team as a biocurator.
Joined Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Chromsome 22 mapping group. During this time 2 years were spent working for The SNP Consortium (TSC) validation group.
Awarded PhD, University of London: "Physical mapping studies on the human X chromosome"
Joined Paediatric Research Unit, Guys Hospital, London, working in the Duchenne muscular dystrophy molecular diagnostics group, and subsequently on X chromosome mapping studies for my PhD.
Awarded BSc (Hons) in Human Genetics, University College, London