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cosmic-database

Query COSMIC (Catalogue Of Somatic Mutations In Cancer) for cancer somatic mutations, gene census data, mutational signatures, drug resistance variants, and cancer gene annotations. REST API v3.1 supports gene/sample/variant queries. Free registration required. For germline clinical variants use clinvar-database; for drug-target data use opentargets-database or chembl-database-bioactivity.

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Installation and usage

Query COSMIC (Catalogue Of Somatic Mutations In Cancer) for cancer somatic mutations, gene census data, mutational signatures, drug resistance variants, and cancer gene annotations. REST API v3.1 supports gene/sample/variant queries. Free registration required. For germline clinical variants use clinvar-database; for drug-target data use opentargets-database or chembl-database-bioactivity.

Installation
$ install --globalskills.sh
Usage

Once installed, you can use this skill by running the following command in your terminal:

skills use cosmic-database