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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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  1. Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, 415 Main Street, Cambridge, 02142, Massachusetts, USA
    Jesse S. Boehm & Todd R. Golub
  2. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Brookline Avenue, Boston, 02215, Massachusetts, USA
    Todd R. Golub
  3. Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston, 02115, Massachusetts, USA
    Todd R. Golub
  4. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 4000 Jones Bridge Road, Chevy Chase, 20815, Maryland, USA
    Todd R. Golub

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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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