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cBioPortal

The cBioPortal for Cancer Genomics provides visualization, analysis, and download of large-scale cancer genomics data sets. For a short intro on cBioPortal, see these introductory slides.

If you would like to know how to setup a private instance of the portal and/or get set up for developing, see the documentation. For details on contributing code changes via pull requests, see our Contributing document.

If you are interested in coordinating the development of new features, please contact cbioportal@cbioportal.org or reach out on https://slack.cbioportal.org.

📘 Documentation

See https://docs.cbioportal.org

  • The cBioPortal News page shows user focused release information (e.g. new data and new features)
  • The release notes on GitHub provide detailed information for each release for deployers/maintainers of cBioPortal
  • Docker Images are available for each tag and branch from Docker Hub

🐛 Bug Reports and Feature Requests

Please email us at cbioportal@googlegroups.com or file a ticket in the cbioportal/cbioportal isssue tracker.

📁 Repositories

Read the Architecture docs to see how these relate:

  • cbioportal: Backend
    • Read-only REST API written in Java Spring, which connects to MySQL database
    • Importer in Java Spring for loading data into MySQL database
    • Validator in Python for checking data file consistency with spec
  • cbioportal-frontend: Frontend in TypeScript/React
  • session-service: User Session Service in Java Spring
  • cbioportal-docker-compose: Recommended way to install cBioPortal and all its components using Docker
  • codebook: Analysis recipes for Python and R that leverage the cBioPortal REST API
  • datahub: Contains all public data files for published studies
  • datahub-study-curation-tools: Scripts to help curate studies for import into cBioPortal

📚 Cite

See How to Cite section of docs.

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  1. cbioportal cbioportal Public

    cBioPortal for Cancer Genomics

    Java 1.1k 879

  2. codebook codebook Public

    A community shared resource of Python and R Notebooks that utilize the cBioPortal API for various analysis recipes

    Jupyter Notebook 9 17

  3. cbioportal-frontend cbioportal-frontend Public

    React Frontend of cBioPortal 🎉

    TypeScript 152 438

  4. datahub datahub Public

    A centralized location for storing curated data from cBioPortal

    HTML 218 142

  5. cbioportal-docker-compose cbioportal-docker-compose Public

    Run cBioPortal using Docker Compose

    Shell 23 62

  6. datahub-study-curation-tools datahub-study-curation-tools Public

    Contains tools used by cBioPortal data curators when preparing data for upload into the datahub repos.

    HTML 23 21

Repositories

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  • cbioportal-frontend Public

    React Frontend of cBioPortal 🎉

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    TypeScript 152 AGPL-3.0 438 0 74 Updated Oct 15, 2026
  • cbioportal-core Public

    Externalized cBioPortal Core

    cBioPortal/cbioportal-core's past year of commit activity
    Java 5 34 27 34 Updated Oct 15, 2026
  • cBioPortal/session-service's past year of commit activity
    Java 8 22 12 3 Updated Oct 15, 2026
  • cbioportal-test Public

    Tests for cBioPortal.

    cBioPortal/cbioportal-test's past year of commit activity
    HTML 0 MIT 3 0 2 Updated Oct 15, 2026
  • cbioportal Public

    cBioPortal for Cancer Genomics

    cBioPortal/cbioportal's past year of commit activity
    Java 1,050 AGPL-3.0 879 302 (19 issues need help) 41 Updated Oct 15, 2026
  • datahub Public

    A centralized location for storing curated data from cBioPortal

    cBioPortal/datahub's past year of commit activity
    HTML 218 142 141 (3 issues need help) 33 Updated Oct 15, 2026
  • cbioportal-go Public

    ⚠️ Experimental: a reimplementation of cBioPortal in Go (importer + REST API on ClickHouse, running the unmodified cBioPortal frontend). Not an official cBioPortal release.

    cBioPortal/cbioportal-go's past year of commit activity
    Go 0 Apache-2.0 0 2 1 Updated Oct 15, 2026
  • cbioportal-mcp-qa Public

    cBioPortal Chat Benchmark

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    HTML 3 2 4 3 Updated Oct 15, 2026
  • cBioPortal/cell-explorer-py's past year of commit activity
    Python 1 MIT 1 20 1 Updated Oct 14, 2026
  • oncotree Public
    cBioPortal/oncotree's past year of commit activity
    Python 53 CC-BY-4.0 32 31 16 Updated Oct 14, 2026

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