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Jesse Boehm and Todd Golub call for an international effort to establish >10,000 cancer cell line models as a community resource. Cancer cell line factories will facilitate the creation of a cancer dependency map, connecting cancer genomics to therapeutic dependencies.
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Boehm, J., Golub, T. An ecosystem of cancer cell line factories to support a cancer dependency map. Nat Rev Genet 16, 373–374 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrg3967
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