Welcome to the Breast Cancer Campaign Tissue Bank Bioinformatics Portal.
The Breast Cancer Tissue Bank Bioinformatics Portal is a major component of the Breast Cancer Campaign Tissue Bank Project. The database was created by the Bioinformatics group within the Barts Cancer Institute in collaboration with other Tissue Bank members and is based on the Biomart technology.
Our database is designed to address various cancer research problems, ranging from patient data and specimen type, through cancer development stage to expression patterns. Scientists are able to refine biological data queries according to various criteria across different experimental data types such as differential expression, CGH and proteomics to look for information on relevant genes, transcripts, proteins, microRNA, SNPs and other biological data By bringing complex data together, it makes it possible for scientists to query and explore results and find new relationships among the factors that contribute to the complex pathogenesis of cancer.
The data model is generic and based on a design developed to set up a resource for the Pancreatic Cancer community (see www.pancreasexpression.org for more information) and can be re-used by other research groups.
The database is available online with no restrictions for the scientific community.