As guidelines, therapies and literature on cancer variants expand, the lack of consensus variant interpretations impedes clinical applications. CIViC is a public-domain, crowd-sourced and adaptable knowledgebase of evidence for the clinical interpretation of variants in cancer, designed to reduce barriers to knowledge sharing and alleviate the variant-interpretation bottleneck.
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Krysiak, K., Danos, A.M., Kiwala, S. et al. A community approach to the cancer-variant-interpretation bottleneck. Nat Cancer 3, 522–525 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43018-022-00379-w
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