Cancer

Project Achilles is a systematic effort aimed at identifying and cataloging genetic vulnerabilities across hundreds of genomically characterized cancer cell lines. The project uses a genome-wide shRNA library to silence individual genes and identify those genes that affect cell survival. Large-scale functional screening of cancer cell lines...

The Cancer Therapeutics Response Portal (CTRP) links genetic, lineage, and other cellular features of cancer cell lines to small-molecule sensitivity with the goal of accelerating discovery of patient-matched cancer therapeutics. CTRP can be mined to develop insights into small-molecule mechanisms of action and novel therapeutic hypotheses, and...

The Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia (CCLE) project is an effort to conduct a detailed genetic characterization of a large panel of human cancer cell lines. The CCLE provides public access analysis and visualization of DNA copy number, mRNA expression, mutation data and more, for 1000 cancer cell lines. The Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia (CCLE)...

The Tumorscape portal facilitates the use and understanding of high resolution copy number data amassed from multiple cancer types. It supports gene-level analysis, analysis by cancer type, and the downloading/browsing of data.

In back-to-back papers published online July 28 in Science, researchers from the Ó³»­´«Ã½, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have confirmed genetic abnormalities previously suspected in head and neck cancer, including defects in the tumor suppressor gene known as p53. But the two teams also found mutations in the NOTCH family of genes, suggesting their role as regulators of an important stage in cell development may be impaired.

The Connectivity Map is a collection of genome-wide transcriptional expression data from cultured human cells treated with bioactive small molecules and simple pattern-matching algorithms that together enable the discovery of decisive functional connections between drugs, genes, and diseases. This web interface is designed to allow biologists...