The UCSC cancer genomics browser: update 2011

The UCSC Cancer Genomics Browser (https:// genome-cancer.ucsc.edu) comprises a suite of web-based tools to integrate, visualize and analyze cancer genomics and clinical data. The browser displays whole-genome views of genome-wide experimental measurements for multiple samples alongside their associated clinical information. Multiple data sets can be viewed simultaneously as coordinated ‘heatmap tracks’ to compare across studies or different data modalities. Users can order, filter, aggregate, classify and display data interactively based on any given feature set including clinical features, annotated biological pathways and user-contributed collections of genes. Integrated standard statistical tools provide dynamic quantitative analysis within all available data sets. The browser hosts a growing body of publicly available cancer genomics data from a variety of cancer types, including data generated from the Cancer Genome Atlas project. Multiple consortiums use the browser on confi...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2011
• Where: NAR
• Authors: J. Zachary Sanborn, Stephen C. Benz, Brian Craft, Christopher Szeto, Kord M. Kober, Laurence R. Meyer, Charles J. Vaske, Mary Goldman, Kayla E. Smith, Robert M. Kuhn, Donna Karolchik, W. James Kent, Joshua M. Stuart, David Haussler, Jingchun Zhu
• Keywords: Biological Pathways, NAR 2011, Tumor Image, Ucsc Genome