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With 11 new partners, AACR's Project GENIE to make available genomic data from 60,000 tumors by 2019
By Matthew Bin Han Ong
Project GENIE, already the largest publicly available genomic data repository in the U.S., is on track to publish information on 60,000 sequenced tumors—derived from an international network largely comprised of academic cancer centers—by January 2019.
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