Our understanding of cancer mechanisms, genetics and complexities continues to expand rapidly. Without a streamlined, standardized and easy to understand organizational system to keep track of this plethora of knowledge, potentially crucial data can effectively be lost. Trusted by scientists for nearly 20 years, COSMIC is the world’s largest, most comprehensive, expert-curated resource for exploring the impact of somatic mutations in human cancers.
Join Leonie Hodges, Scientific Communications Officer for COSMIC, for this webinar to take a journey through COSMIC’s mission, the results of our latest curation focus and how we have developed our download files to improve accessibility and useability.
Through the lens of COSMIC v98, participants of this session will:
- Delve into our manual curation and rigorous data annotation processes, and how the resulting gold standard data enables users to experiment and innovate with confidence.
- Gain insight into the motivations behind our curation focuses and the results of our latest focus: rare skin tumors, including new tumor types/histologies, a newly fully curated cancer gene and more.
- Explore the revamped COSMIC download files, with particular focus on their interoperability, accessibility and useability.
