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World’s First Database of Genomic Variants of ORAL Cancer..

The National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (NIBMG), based in Kalyani, West Bengal, created the world’s first browsable online database on July 7, 2021, the ‘dbGENVOC-Oral Cancer Database of Genomic Variations’.

This database is a repository that is freely accessible to the public.

*It will be updated annually with varying data from new oral cancer patients from various parts of India and Southeast Asia.
*NIBMG is funded by the Department of Biotechnology.

Features of dbGENVOC:

*It is said to have a built-in powerful search engine.
*It allows for statistical and biological communication online analysis, including identifying variations in altered pathways associated with oral cancer.

Database:

*Currently, it contains ∼24 million clinically relevant information on somatic and germline types.
*It also contains somatic variant data from 220 patient samples obtained from the United States (United States) and analyzed by the DCGA-HNSCC (The Cancer Genome Atlas Head-Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma) program.
*There are manually managed variance data of 118 patients from recently published co-reviewed publications.