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.