title: Sequence-based cancer genomics: progress, lessons and opportunities.
abstract: Technologies that provide a genome-wide view offer an unprecedented opportunity to scrutinize the molecular biology of the cancer cell. The information that is derived from these technologies is well suited to the development of public databases of alterations in the cancer genome and its expression. Here, we describe the synergistic efforts of research programmes in Brazil, the United Kingdom and the United States towards building integrated databases that are widely accessible to the research community, to enable basic and applied applications in cancer research.
authors.affiliation: National Cancer Institute, 31 Center Drive, Room 10A07, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA. RLS@nih.gov
authors.forename: Robert L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Strausberg
authors.forename: Andrew J G
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Simpson
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wooster
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D020224:Expressed Sequence Tags; D005544:Forecasting; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D015894:Genome, Human; D023281:Genomics / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics*; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D006113:United Kingdom; D014481:United States