Breast cancer rates have increased by more than 50% over the last twenty years and breast cancer is now the most common cancer in the UK, with more than 46,000 women diagnosed with breast cancer each year. Breast cancer research spans many disciplines of biomedical research from the bench to the clinic, and relevant large-scale datasets are emerging from all over the world. In order to make the most of this growing mountain of data we are developing ROCK-BCFG to provide a novel publically accessible data warehouse and knowledgebase focussed on breast cancer.
ROCK-BCFG (ROCK Breast Cancer Functional Genomics) aims to provide a single online interface for the management, navigation, cross-linking and cross-correlation of data relating to breast cancer research from a wide variety of laboratory and clinical studies. This database is founded on genomic and protein interaction datasets, and is being populated with breast cancer relevant microarray gene expression, array CGH, DNA methylation, RNAi screen, and clinical trial data. We are developing an extensive online interface to enable mining of this data, including interactive network visualisation and clustering applications. This project aims to accelerate the pace of breast cancer research by enabling scientists to quickly and easily analyse new experimental results in the context of previous data and knowledge, facilitating model development and hypothesis generation.
| ROCK-BCFG News |
| 17 AUG 2009 | BRCAbase is renamed to ROCK-BCFG | ||||
| 26 JUN 2009 | BRCAbase 1.0 released |