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DPSC-Cancer

General information

URL: http://dpsc.ccbr.utoronto.ca/cancer/
Full name: Donnelly - Princess Margaret Screening Centre Cancer Database
Description: The DPSC-Cancer database is a collection of shRNA dropout signatures profiles, covering ~16000 human genes, and derived from more than 70 Pancreatic, Ovarian and Breast human cancer cell-lines using the microarray detection platform developed in the DPSC (Donnelly - Princess Margaret Screening Centre) facility at the Moffat Lab.
Year founded: 2012
Last update: NA
Version: v1.0
Accessibility:
Accessible
Country/Region: Canada

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Data type:
RNA
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Contact information

University/Institution: University of Toronto
Address: University of Toronto,160 College St.,Toronto,ON M5S 3E1,Canada
City: Toronto
Province/State: ON
Country/Region: Canada
Contact name (PI/Team): Jason Moffat
Contact email (PI/Helpdesk): j.moffat@utoronto.ca

Publications

22102578
COLT-Cancer: functional genetic screening resource for essential genes in human cancer cell lines. [PMID: 22102578]
Koh JL, Brown KR, Sayad A, Kasimer D, Ketela T, Moffat J.

Genome-wide pooled shRNA screens enable global identification of the genes essential for cancer cell survival and proliferation and provide a 'functional genetic' map of human cancer to complement genomic studies. Using a lentiviral shRNA library targeting approximately 16,000 human genes and a newly developed scoring approach, we identified essential gene profiles in more than 70 breast, pancreatic and ovarian cancer cell lines. We developed a web-accessible database system for capturing information from each step in our standardized screening pipeline and a gene-centric search tool for exploring shRNA activities within a given cell line or across multiple cell lines. The database consists of a laboratory information and management system for tracking each step of a pooled shRNA screen as well as a web interface for querying and visualization of shRNA and gene-level performance across multiple cancer cell lines. COLT-Cancer Version 1.0 is currently accessible at http://colt.ccbr.utoronto.ca/cancer.

Nucleic Acids Res. 2012:40(Database issue) | 38 Citations (from Europe PMC, 2025-12-13)

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3428/6895 (50.297%)
Health and medicine:
859/1738 (50.633%)
3428
Total Rank
37
Citations
2.846
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Created on: 2015-06-20
Curated by:
Jian Sang [2016-04-04]
Jian Sang [2015-12-07]
Mengwei Li [2015-06-27]