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Metastatic Melanoma (DFCI, Science 2015)

cBioPortal DataHub · study skcm_dfci_2015 · www.cbioportal.org/study/summary?id=skcm_dfci_2015

Study metadataOpen database (ODbL)PubMed 1Other published and consortium studiesApproximately 1 min read

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1. Summary2. Study description3. Citation & PubMed4. Source & licence

Summary

Metastatic Melanoma (DFCI, Science 2015) is a study catalogued by cBioPortal DataHub under the cancer-type code skcm. EvidenceHelix groups it with skin and eye studies.

This page is catalog metadata only: what the study is called and where to find it. It does not report findings, mutation frequencies or patient numbers, and it is not clinical guidance.

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Study description

Whole-exome sequencing of 110 metastatic melanoma tumor-normal pairs.

Text as published in the source's study metadata.

Citation & PubMed

Van Allen et al. Science 2015

Linked PubMed records: PMID 26359337

Source & licence

Metadata from cBioPortal DataHub at e1b75cd25b, available under the ODC Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. See the Source metadata tab for every field.

Source metadata

Study identifier
skcm_dfci_2015
Short name
Melanoma (Van Allen, Science)
Source cancer-type code
skcm
Reference genome
not given
Source access groups
not given
Original study
View on cBioPortal
Metadata file
meta_study.txt at e1b75cd25b
Database licence
ODC Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0

Study-level metadata only (title, description, cancer-type code, citation, PubMed ids). No patient, sample, mutation or clinical data, and no publication full text, is included. Individual studies may carry their own terms; follow each study's source links before reusing its data.

Citations

Van Allen et al. Science 2015

  • PubMed record 26359337 ↗

Citation counts are not part of the source metadata and are not shown.

Related studies

  • Melanoma (Broad/Dana Farber, Nature 2012)

    Whole Genome Sequencing of 25 metastatic melanoma samples with matched normals

    Skin and eyeOther published and consortium studiesSource code skcmPubMed 1
  • Skin Cutaneous Melanoma (Broad, Cell 2012)

    Whole-exome sequencing of 121 melanoma samples with matched normals.

    Skin and eyeOther published and consortium studiesSource code skcmPubMed 1
  • Skin Cutaneous Melanoma (Yale, Nat Genet 2012)

    Exome sequencing of 147 melanoma samples with 99 matched normals.

    Skin and eyeOther published and consortium studiesSource code skcmPubMed 1
  • Melanoma (MSK, NEJM 2014)

    Whole-exome sequencing of 64 pretreated (ipilimumab or tremelimumab) melanoma tumor-normal pairs.

    Skin and eyeMSK studiesSource code skcmPubMed 1
  • Melanomas (TCGA, Cell 2015)

    Whole-exome sequencing of 333 primary and/or metastatic melanomas.

    Skin and eyeTCGA (other releases)Source code skcmPubMed 1
  • Metastatic Melanoma (MSK, JCO Precis Oncol 2017)

    Targeted sequencing of pre-treatment 66 Melanoma tumor samples. PubMed (https://ascopubs.org/doi/full/10.1200/PO.16.00054)

    Skin and eyeMSK studiesSource code skcmPubMed 1
  • Skin Cutaneous Melanoma (TCGA, Firehose Legacy)

    TCGA Skin Cutaneous Melanoma. Source data from GDAC Firehose (http://gdac.broadinstitute.org/runs/stddata__2016_01_28/data/SKCM/20160128/). Previously known as TCGA Provisional.

    Skin and eyeTCGA Firehose LegacySource code skcm
  • Skin Cutaneous Melanoma (TCGA, PanCancer Atlas)

    Skin Cutaneous Melanoma TCGA PanCancer data. The original data is here (https://gdc.cancer.gov/about-data/publications/pancanatlas). The publications are here (https://www.cell.com/pb-assets/consortium/pancanceratlas/…

    Skin and eyeTCGA PanCancer AtlasSource code skcmPubMed 12

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At a glance

Study ID
skcm_dfci_2015
Cancer family
Skin and eye
Collection
Other published and consortium studies
Source code
skcm
PubMed links
1

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Related studies See all →

  • Melanoma (Broad/Dana Farber, Nature 2012)Other published and consortium studies
  • Skin Cutaneous Melanoma (Broad, Cell 2012)Other published and consortium studies
  • Skin Cutaneous Melanoma (Yale, Nat Genet 2012)Other published and consortium studies
  • Melanoma (MSK, NEJM 2014)MSK studies

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Original sources

  • Study on cBioPortal ↗
  • Source metadata file ↗
  • PubMed 26359337 ↗

Study metadata from cBioPortal DataHub (e1b75cd25b, synced 2026-10-31), available under the ODC Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0; attribution required. EvidenceLib is a research-education resource, not medical advice. Sources & licence