Project name: Homo sapiens

Description: The Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia (CCLE) project is a collaboration between the Broad Institute, the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research and the Genomics Novartis Foundation to conduct a detailed genetic and pharmacologic characterization of a large panel of human cancer modelsIt consists of a compilation of gene expression, chromosomal copy number, and massively parallel sequencing data from nearly 1,000 human cancer cell lines. All raw and processed data are available through an integrated portal on www.broadinstitute.org/ccleOverall design: The final cell line collection spans 36 cancer types. Representation of cell lines for each cancer type was mainly driven by cancer mortality in the United States, as a surrogate of unmet medical need, as well as availability.

Data type: Transcriptome or Gene expression

Sample scope: Multiisolate

Relevance: Medical

Release date: 2012-03-20

Last updated: 2012-02-28