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New Products: Jul 12, 2011 (rev. 1)

Jul 13, 2011
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The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute has released version 54 of COSMIC, the Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer. The new version includes the full curation of five new cancer genes and seven new fusion pairs. Additionally, four new systematic screens are included, covering a range of cancer phenotypes.

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