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Largest genomic cancer resource accelerating research and drug development

21 May 2024

Press release

Published on 21/05/24

COSMIC has released the 100th version of its knowledgebase, containing further information on 300,000 somatic mutations linked to human cancers.

Professor Sir Mike Stratton

27 Jul 2023

As he prepared to step down as director of The Sanger Institute we interviewed Sir Professor Mike Stratton. Join us as we reflect on his fascinating career, his role in the early days of COSMIC and his advice for aspiring scientists!

UV nail dryers and DNA damage

18 May 2023

Dr Maria Zhivagui discusses her research that’s captured the attention of the cancer research community and public alike. Explore the deleterious effects UV nail dryers can have on DNA, possible long term consequences of these damages and much more!

Acral melanoma: The research closing the care gap for Mexican melanoma patients

8 Mar 2023

Dr Carla Daniela Robles-Espinoza delves into her research on the genetic causes of acral lentiginous melanoma. Explore the role COSMIC played and how studies like this could help to close the care gap for lesser researched diseases.

Copy Number Signatures: A scalable research and clinical tool?

15 Jun 2022

Copy Number Signatures are the latest addition to COSMIC Mutational Signatures, I caught up with one of the leads, Dr Ludmil Alexandrov, to discuss the key findings, utility of the data, and hopes for the future.

COSMIC Mutational Signatures: Release V3.2 (March 2021)

24 Mar 2021

We’d like to share our exciting new developments and updates for COSMIC Mutational Signatures in our v3.2 release.

COSMIC Mutational Signatures: Release V3.1

13 Jul 2020

This post signals the first of some very exciting new developments for COSMIC Mutational Signatures. Our main focus for this release has been to make a series of design updates to adopt the COSMIC branding, plus a small data update for the signatures.

Mutational Signatures Update

15 May 2019

We are pleased to announce a major expansion of the mutational signatures, based on the analysis of 84,729,690 somatic mutations from 4,645 whole cancer genome and 19,184 exome sequences encompassing most cancer types.

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COSMIC, the Catalogue Of Somatic Mutations In Cancer, is the most comprehensive resource for exploring the impact of somatic mutations in human cancer. Here on our news page we aim to give you an insight into what we are doing and why. We will keep you updated with new developments and release information as well as any events we are hosting.