# cBioPortal for Cancer Genomics

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## TL;DR

cBioPortal lets you browse the mutations, copy number, and expression of tens of thousands of tumours without writing code.

## Summary

cBioPortal for Cancer Genomics offers interactive exploration of more than 300 cancer genomics studies, including TCGA, MSK-IMPACT and AACR Project GENIE, so that a reader can browse mutations, copy number and expression across tens of thousands of tumours without writing code. Views include OncoPrints, survival plots, co-occurrence and pathway summaries, and an API supports programmatic access. The software is open source under the AGPL, with each study's data under its own terms, and it is maintained by MSK, Dana-Farber, Princess Margaret, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and others. On OnCo it is linked to the technologies Comprehensive genomic profiling and Whole-exome and whole-genome sequencing, and cited by the bottlenecks Tumour heterogeneity and clonal evolution and Data silos.

## Fields

- Kind: Collection
- Last checked: 2026-09-04
- URL: https://www.cbioportal.org
- Holds: Interactive exploration of >300 cancer genomics studies including TCGA, MSK-IMPACT, GENIE.
- Licence: Open source (AGPL); data per study

## Sources

- cBioPortal for Cancer Genomics: https://www.cbioportal.org

## Connected records

- technologies: [Cancer variant knowledgebases and molecular tumour boards](https://onco.cc/technologies/variant-knowledgebases/), [Clinical NGS bioinformatics and variant interpretation](https://onco.cc/technologies/ngs-bioinformatics-software/), [Comprehensive genomic profiling](https://onco.cc/technologies/cgp/), [Whole-exome & whole-genome sequencing](https://onco.cc/technologies/wes-wgs/)
- institutions: [Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center](https://onco.cc/institutions/dana-farber/), [Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center](https://onco.cc/institutions/mskcc/), [Princess Margaret Cancer Centre](https://onco.cc/institutions/princess-margaret/)
- bottlenecks: [Data silos](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-data-silos/), [Tumour heterogeneity and clonal evolution](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-tumor-heterogeneity/)
- ideas: [A global rapid tissue donation network for metastatic disease](https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-bio2-rapid-autopsy-commons/), [An organotropism atlas that predicts where a cancer will spread](https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-bio2-organotropism-atlas/), [Bank yearly blood from cancer survivors so future tests can be validated](https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-bio2-survivor-plasma-biobank/), [Every tumour genomic report machine-readable and deposited nationally](https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-data-structured-genomic-reports/), [Let patients themselves donate their records and samples for ultra-rare cancers](https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-bio2-patient-partnered-rare-commons/), [Pool every immunotherapy trial's biomarker data into one commons](https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-bio2-io-biomarker-data-commons/)
- terms: [OncoTree cancer classification](https://onco.cc/terms/oncotree-term/)

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