DBT-NIBMG creates world’s 1st database of Oral Cancer variants

WHY IN NEWS? Department of Biotechnology (DBT) & National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (NIBMG) has created a first of its king database of genomic variation in oral cancer. NIBMG made this database accessible to public. Database is being called as dbGENVOC. About dbGENVOC It is a free resource and a browsable online database of genomic Variants of Oral Cancer. First release of dbGENVOC comprises of 24 million somatic and germline variants which have been derived from whole exome sequences of 100 oral cancer patients & whole genome sequences of 5 oral cancer patients. Somatic variation data from 220 patient samples were....Read More