FALMOUTH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Sophic announced the launch of a 12-month, $1.3M project funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), to complete the first comprehensive index of 6,610 cancer-related genes found in Medline abstracts, with manually annotated gene-disease and gene-compound relationships. Over the past four years, Sophic has teamed with NCI and Biomax Informatics AG in Munich, Germany, to build this highly curated, standardized, computable cancer knowledge base. When complete, the cancer community will have access to a comprehensive compendium of cancer information. The 4,658 cancer genes annotated in previous phases of this project are already publicly available at the NCI website at http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/NCICB/projects/cgdcp.
