Add more data sources into the description of the TCGA PanCan studies

[jjgao]

E.g. for breast, colorectal, and ovarian, add "mass spectrometry based proteomics data from CPTAC [citation]."

[rmadupuri]

Hi @tmazor @jjgao, can we could get your comments on phrasing the description of PanCancer Atlas studies?

Here's an example from the brca pancancer atlas study:

Currently the description on the portal is

Breast Invasive Carcinoma TCGA PanCancer data. The original data is here. The publications are here.

and we would like to add additional data resources we have curated from as below

Breast Invasive Carcinoma TCGA PanCancer data. The original data is here. The publications are here. Data from additional sources are added as below
- Mass spectrometry based proteomics data from CPTAC [Vasaikar et al. Nucleic Acids Res. 2018]
- Microbial Signatures from the Cancer Microbiome Data Browser [Poore et al. Nature 2020]
- MSI Scores from MSIsensor [Ding et al. Cell 2018] and MANTIS [Bonneville et al. JCO 2017]
- Hypoxia Scores from Buffa, Winter and Ragnum Signatures [Bhandari et al. Nature 2019]

There will be more data types/sources that we will be curating in the future from https://github.com/cBioPortal/datahub/issues/241 so the list above will grow.

Could you let us know if this format looks good or do you have any suggestions on rephrasing the description?

Thank you!

[jjgao]

@rmadupuri I think this looks great 👍

[rmadupuri]

Thanks @jjgao! Two questions:

1. There is a character limit (1024) on the description field and we will not be able to add in all the data sources. Can the limit be increased?
2. The list format takes too much space on the summary page. Is that okay? cc. @tmazor

[jjgao]

1. We can increase the character limit. cc @sheridancbio
2. Maybe we don't need to list each one in new lines, but just separate them by a comma?

[tmazor]

Wording looks good to me, and I think it would be fine to separate with commas rather than as a list.