Databases and web tools for cancer genomics study

Yadong Yang; Xunong Dong; Bingbing Xie; Nan Ding; Juan Chen; Yongjun Li; Qian Zhang; Hongzhu Qu; Xiangdong Fang

doi:10.1016/j.gpb.2015.01.005

Databases and web tools for cancer genomics study

Genomics Proteomics Bioinformatics. 2015 Feb;13(1):46-50. doi: 10.1016/j.gpb.2015.01.005. Epub 2015 Feb 21.

Authors

Yadong Yang¹, Xunong Dong², Bingbing Xie², Nan Ding², Juan Chen³, Yongjun Li¹, Qian Zhang¹, Hongzhu Qu¹, Xiangdong Fang⁴

Affiliations

¹ CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
² CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
³ Technical Service Center of Family Planning and Reproductive Health, National Research Institution for Health and Family Planning, Beijing 100081, China.
⁴ CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China. Electronic address: fangxd@big.ac.cn.

Abstract

Publicly-accessible resources have promoted the advance of scientific discovery. The era of genomics and big data has brought the need for collaboration and data sharing in order to make effective use of this new knowledge. Here, we describe the web resources for cancer genomics research and rate them on the basis of the diversity of cancer types, sample size, omics data comprehensiveness, and user experience. The resources reviewed include data repository and analysis tools; and we hope such introduction will promote the awareness and facilitate the usage of these resources in the cancer research community.

Keywords: Cancer; Collaboration; Data integration; Genomics; Resource.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Biomedical Research*
Databases, Factual*
Genomics / methods*
Humans
Internet*
Neoplasms / genetics*