Webster Cavenee can't wait to start doing cancer research on the Web. Like thousands of other biologists, Cavenee, a cancer geneticist at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in San Diego, has already come to depend on a burgeoning array of online databases to help search for new genes and understand what they do. But sometime next month, Cavenee and his colleagues will be able to take their computer queries to a new level, thanks to the Cancer Genome Anatomy Project (CGAP)—an ambitious effort that aims at nothing less than a complete catalog of all the genes expressed in cancer cells.
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