cbio-skin-canc

The dataset I have selected for this assignment is from the CBio Portal for Cancer Genomics website.
The full data set is in tar / gzip format that can be downloaded directly from https://www.cbioportal.org/study/summary?id=mel_mskimpact_2020.
I will focus on the clinical data files (data_clinical_patient.txt, data_clinical_sample.txt, and data_mutations.txt), primarily the clinical patient file. These are tab delimited plain text files that can be accessed after the tar is decompressed.
There is a mix of categorical (factors), continuous and numerical features (some to be inferred by R code).
This data represents the targeted sequencing (MSK-IMPACT) of 696 melanoma tumour / normal pairs.
There is a corresponding published medical journal entitled “Therapeutic Implications of Detecting MAPK-Activating Alterations in Cutaneous and Unknown Primary Melanomas”.

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