Welcome Breast Cancer Researchers!

Welcome to the (SUM) Breast Cancer Cell Line Knowledge Base, aka SLKBase

This resource is designed to help breast cancer researchers enhance the power of their research involving the SUM human breast cancer cell lines, as well as over 50 other  human breast cancer cell lines,  by giving them access to the many omics data sets that have been generated with these cell lines over the years.  Whereas I originally developed this resource for users of the SUM breast cancer cell lines, I have recently expanded the resource to include information, data, and data mining tools for 50 other commonly used breast cancer cell lines.  As a result, you will now see in the menu bar two different gateway pages; one for the SUM lines and one for 50 other breast cancer cell lines.  Note that all of the data mining tools are available for both sets of cell lines.

This space was designed to be interactive, and my hope was to use this as a way to develop a virtual community of breast cancer researchers that will dramatically enhance the progress that we make in this important field of work.  That is why there are blog spaces associated with the cell lines, and why I have also written a few blogs.  So far, its the rare scientist who takes advantage of these spaces, which is something that I hope will change in the future.

Access to the SLKBase requires a user name and password.  Everyone should have public access to this home page, and to the SLKBase page, but anything beyond that will require a registration first, and then a log in for future visits to the Knowledge Base.  Once you click on any of the other pages, a Login form will appear along with a Registration Form for non-registered users.

Upon registration, you will receive an email from SLKBase@sumlineknowledgebase.com with your user name and a generated password. 

After  you log in for the first time using the system-generated password, click here to change your password.  You do need to be logged in to use this link.

If you encounter ANY problems with the website or if you encounter a broken link, please write me either at ethier@musc.edu or spethier@gmail.com.

Thank you for being part of the (SUM) Breast Cancer Cell Line Knowledge Base! 

To make use and navigation of this web site easier, I have recorded several YouTube videos that explain how to use the data mining tools, and describe some recent updates to the web site.  To view the introductory video that explains how to navigate the web site, please click here.  Alternatively, you can download this video directly from the Data Download Center.

To view all of my YouTube videos on the SLKBase, please visit my YouTube channel.

So, let’s get started.

Steve Ethier

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