The cancer bioportal (cBioPortal) is a huge, browser-based and highly interactive database for working with cancer datasets, including sequencing and clinical data. This is a highly useful resource for wet lab and bioinformatic cancer scientists alike, providing broader relevance for lab results, pan-cancer data for large cost-cutting analyses, and extensive fodder for undergraduate research projects.

This session will start with an overview of cBioPortal, including a website walkthrough. You will then go through some guided and structured problem-solving examples combining omics data and clinical information from different cancer types. We’ll finish with how you can extend beyond the browser by downloading and accessing the underlying data yourselves.

This session is evenly split between presentations/walkthroughs and problem-solving tasks.