Program Description

These days there seems to be a lot of talk about atlases for cancer. Most of us are familiar with The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), the long-running effort which, over the past decade, sequenced genomes from thousands of tumor samples covering dozens of cancer types. TCGA catalogued the complex patterns of gene mutations underlying tumors, implicated numerous new cancer genes, and is generally viewed as a resounding success.

These days there seems to be a lot of talk about atlases for cancer. Most of us are familiar with The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), the long-running effort which, over the past decade, sequenced genomes from thousands of tumor samples covering dozens of cancer types. TCGA catalogued the complex patterns of gene mutations underlying tumors, implicated numerous new cancer genes, and is generally viewed as a resounding success.