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TCPA

General information

URL: http://tcpaportal.org
Full name: The Cancer Proteome Atlas
Description: A comprehensive resource for accessing, visualizing, and analyzing functional proteomics of cancer cell lines
Year founded: 2017
Last update: 2018
Version: 1.2.1
Accessibility:
Accessible
Country/Region: United States

Contact information

University/Institution: University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Address: Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.
City: Houston
Province/State: Texas
Country/Region: United States
Contact name (PI/Team): Han Liang
Contact email (PI/Helpdesk): hliang1@mdanderson.org

Publications

29092939
Explore, Visualize, and Analyze Functional Cancer Proteomic Data Using the Cancer Proteome Atlas. [PMID: 29092939]
Li J, Akbani R, Zhao W, Lu Y, Weinstein JN, Mills GB, Liang H.

Reverse-phase protein arrays (RPPA) represent a powerful functional proteomic approach to elucidate cancer-related molecular mechanisms and to develop novel cancer therapies. To facilitate community-based investigation of the large-scale protein expression data generated by this platform, we have developed a user-friendly, open-access bioinformatic resource, The Cancer Proteome Atlas (TCPA, http://tcpaportal.org), which contains two separate web applications. The first one focuses on RPPA data of patient tumors, which contains >8,000 samples of 32 cancer types from The Cancer Genome Atlas and other independent patient cohorts. The second application focuses on the RPPA data of cancer cell lines and contains >650 independent cell lines across 19 lineages. Many of these cell lines have publicly available, high-quality DNA, RNA, and drug screening data. TCPA provides various analytic and visualization modules to help cancer researchers explore these datasets and generate testable hypotheses in an effective and intuitive manner. Cancer Res; 77(21); e51-54. ©2017 AACR.

Cancer Res. 2017:77(21) | 91 Citations (from Europe PMC, 2025-12-06)

Ranking

All databases:
1268/6895 (81.624%)
Raw bio-data:
89/582 (84.88%)
1268
Total Rank
88
Citations
11
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Created on: 2018-01-27
Curated by:
Lin Liu [2022-09-20]
Lin Liu [2022-08-16]
Fatima Batool [2018-04-10]
Yang Zhang [2018-01-27]