cBioPortal Newsletter March 2025

[Tali Mazor]

                               

        March, 2025

Welcome to the March 2025 edition of the cBioPortal Newsletter!

As we step into 2025, we're excited to share the latest updates and enhancements in cBioPortal. 

cBioPortal is hosting Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2025 We are excited to announce that cBioPortal has once again been selected as a host organization for GSoC this year! The GSoC program plays a key role in nurturing our community by attracting talented contributors who bring fresh perspectives and skills to enhance cBioPortal.  Last summer was a great success, with 10 wonderful contributors making meaningful contributions—check out our recap of cBioPortal’s GSoC 2024! If you're interested in participating this year, explore our GSoC organization page for a list of potential projects and details on the application process.  We are looking forward to working with you as either contributors or mentors. The projects vary in difficulty and scope, so don’t hesitate to start a conversation if any of them catch your interest! The official contributor applications start on March 24th, make sure to use the time until then to bring up any ideas for tackling already listed projects as contributors, or come up with your own ideas as mentors! Here is the timeline for the full program.

♥️ Contribute to the cBioPortal Foundation ♥️:

The cBioPortal Foundation is committed to advancing the development and adoption of cBioPortal, an open-source software for exploring multidimensional cancer datasets. Support our mission by visiting our new donation page or reaching out to discuss partnership opportunities.

Highlights from 2024 & What’s Next for cBioPortal:

In 2024, we achieved significant milestones—check out our latest enhancements and breakthroughs!

We are also working on a public roadmap, set to go live later this year, to give you a clear view of what’s ahead in terms of both performance improvements and exciting new features. Track our progress, see what's coming next, and help shape the future by suggesting features—meet us at AACR 2025 or reach out via our Google Group!

We’ll be at the AACR Annual Meeting in Chicago in April!

Come visit us in the Exhibition Hall at Booth 3703 (in Non-Profit Row). Stop by to ask questions, request features or data, let us know how you use cBioPortal, or just say hi and grab a cBioPortal sticker or a pen. 

We’re excited to present our work on cBioPortal in the following poster session:

• Sunday, April 27 2-5pm, AACR Project GENIE Use Cases Session
  
  

Title: cBioPortal for Cancer Genomics
Presenter: Ino de Bruijn, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Poster Section 48, Board 3

Check out these posters from cBioPortal community members as well:

• Sunday April 27 2-5pm, Database Resources
  
  Title: Sharing Data from the Human Tumor Atlas Network through Standards, Infrastructure, and Community Engagement
  Presenter: Dar’ya Pozhidayeva, Institute for Systems Biology
  Poster Section 46, Board 16
  Website: https://humantumoratlas.org/
  
  Title: OncoKB™, MSK’s precision oncology knowledge base: 2024 updates
  Presenter: Sarah Phillips Suehnholz, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  Poster Section 46, Board 6
  Website: https://oncokb.org/
  
  

• Monday, April 28 8-10 am, Innovative Technologies Driving Advances in Cancer Research (Plenary Session)

Title: Illuminating the cancer journey with cell-free whole genome sequencing

Presenter: Trevor Pugh, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre / OICR

• Tuesday, April 29 9am-12pm, Sequence Analysis and Genome Landscapes
  Title: reVUE: Repository for Variants with Unexpected Effects

Presenter: Xiang Li, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Poster Section 46, Board 14

Website: https://cancerrevue.org/

🔵Follow us on Bluesky!🔵

cBioPortal is now on Bluesky! Give us a follow and stay up to date with cBioPortal community news, new features and releases. 

Feature Highlight: Sorting functionality for stacked bar charts You can now re-order the stacked bar charts in the Plots Tab alphabetically, by the number of samples or by the data category in the plot. This enhancement allows you to create more ready-to-publish figures using cBioPortal! As usual, the plots created in the Plots Tab can be downloaded in different formats. Click here to try out the enhanced stacked bar charts in cBioPortal.

To learn more about cBioPortal, review our documentation, which includes FAQs, webinars, and tutorials. If you have questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to us at cbiop...@googlegroups.com.

Stay tuned for more updates, and thank you for your continued support in advancing cancer genomics research with cBioPortal.

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