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A user guide for the online exploration and visualization of PCAWG data.

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Abstract

The Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (PCAWG) project generated a vast amount of whole-genome cancer sequencing resource data. Here, as part of the ICGC/TCGA Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (PCAWG) Consortium, which aggregated whole genome sequencing data from 2658 cancers across 38 tumor types, we provide a user's guide to the five publicly available online data exploration and visualization tools introduced in the PCAWG marker paper. These tools are ICGC Data Portal, UCSC Xena, Chromothripsis Explorer, Expression Atlas, and PCAWG-Scout. We detail use cases and analyses for each tool, show how they incorporate outside resources from the larger genomics ecosystem, and demonstrate how the tools can be used together to understand the biology of cancers more deeply. Together, the tools enable researchers to query the complex genomic PCAWG data dynamically and integrate external information, enabling and enhancing interpretation.

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Funder: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Cancer Institute (NCI)


Funder: Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (Institut Ontarien de Recherche sur le Cancer); doi: https://doi.org/10.13039/100012118


Funder: EMBL Member States EU FP7 Programme projects EurocanPlatform (260791) CAGEKID (241669)


Funder: European Union’s Framework Programme For Research and Innovation Horizon 2020 under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 703543


Funder: Michael & Susan Dell Foundation; Mary K. Chapman Foundation; CCSG Grant P30 CA016672 (Bioinformatics Shared Resource); ITCR U24 CA199461; GDAN U24 CA210949; GDAN U24 CA210950


Funder: European Commission's H2020 Programme, project SOUND, Grant Agreement no 633974


Funder: Spanish Government (SEV 2015-0493) BSC-Lenovo Master Collaboration Agreement (2015)

Keywords

Chromothripsis, Computational Biology, Data Analysis, Databases, Genetic, Genome, Human, Genomics, Humans, Internet, Mutation, Neoplasms, Software, User-Computer Interface, Whole Genome Sequencing

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Nat Commun

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Journal ISSN

2041-1723
2041-1723

Volume Title

11

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Sponsorship
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Cancer Institute (NCI) (5U24CA210974-02, 5U24CA180951-04, 5U24CA210974-02, 5U24CA180951-04, 5U24CA210974-02, 5U24CA180951-04, 5U24CA210974-02, 5U24CA180951-04)