Science and medicine

cBioPortal for Cancer Genomics

Aid discovery in complex cancer genomics data

Technologies
JavaJavaScriptmysqlReactTypeScript
Topics
big databioinformaticscancergenomicsprecision medicine
Total projects
42
Years participating
8
Most recent
2026

Participation history

8 program years
Projects by participation year 2016: 5 projects, 2017: 6 projects, 2019: 6 projects, 2022: 2 projects, 2023: 6 projects, 2024: 9 projects, 2025: 3 projects, 2026: 5 projects 5 2016 6 2017 6 2019 2 2022 6 2023 9 2024 3 2025 5 2026

Historical projects

2026 5 projects

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Automated Clinical Metadata Harmonization Dashboard

Contributor: Ahmed_Osama

cBioPortal hosts 400+ cancer genomics studies whose clinical metadata is wildly heterogeneous — treatment fields alone have 24+ variants. The...

AI-Assisted Curation Assistant Tool for cBioPortal

Contributor: fppcng

This project aims to extend the existing cBioAbstractor prototype into a schema-driven formatting pipeline that assists curators in transforming...

Enhance Similarity Maps (Embeddings) Visualization

Contributor: Leslie Ejeh

cBioPortal introduced Similarity Maps, a feature that visualizes UMAP/PCA embeddings of cancer samples, allowing researchers to discover hidden...

MCP Apps: Interactive Genomic Visualisations for AI Clients

Contributor: Luke Devlin

This proposal outlines a plan to extend the cBioPortal MCP server with interactive genomic visualisation applications via MCP Apps that allow AI...

Enhance 3D Protein Structure Viewer in cBioPortal using AlphaFold Data

Contributor: YichuanZ

This project enhances the 3D protein structure viewer in cBioPortal by integrating AlphaFold predicted structures alongside experimentally determined...