A-Z Databases

The Decision Support unit within the MD Anderson Cancer Center Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Institute for Personalized Cancer Therapy is responsible for compiling and integrating available scientific knowledge on cancer-associated abnormal genes and gene products and their implications for cancer therapy. It requires the incorporation of information from multiple data sources, linking the functional effects of an altered gene to potential therapy options into a central repository that can be easily accessed, interpreted, and utilized by physicians and patients.