The researchers from Piotr Kozłowski’s team, in collaboration with the Laboratory of Bioinformatics, including Malwina Suszyńska, Magda Machowska, Eliza Fraszczyk, Maciej Michalczyk, Anna Philips, and Paulina Gałka-Marciniak, developed the Cancer miRNA Census (CMC), the first comprehensive list and score of cancer-related miRNA genes. The list was constructed based on several independent criteria and validated by comparisons with numerous cancer data sets. The CMC may be used as a reference for the validation of results of miRNA analyses in cancer, the prioritization of miRNAs in different cancer analyses, and the optimization of methods for identifying further cancer-related miRNAs or cancer-driver miRNA genes. A CMC search is possible via the CMC Cancer Genome Census portal, https://cmc.ibch.poznan.pl/.

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