{"id":49015,"date":"2026-02-20T16:31:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ub-blog.meduniwien.ac.at\/blog\/?p=49015"},"modified":"2026-02-20T17:06:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:06:51","slug":"cosmic-webinar-standardize-tumor-classification-and-variant-annotation-for-reproducible-cohort-building-with-cosmic-march-19-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ub.meduniwien.ac.at\/blog\/?p=49015","title":{"rendered":"COSMIC webinar: &#8222;Standardize tumor classification and variant annotation for reproducible cohort building with COSMIC&#8220;, March 19, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-48834\" src=\"https:\/\/ub-blog.meduniwien.ac.at\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/COSMIC-Logo-300x70.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"70\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ub.meduniwien.ac.at\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/COSMIC-Logo-300x70.png 300w, https:\/\/ub.meduniwien.ac.at\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/COSMIC-Logo-800x186.png 800w, https:\/\/ub.meduniwien.ac.at\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/COSMIC-Logo-768x178.png 768w, https:\/\/ub.meduniwien.ac.at\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/COSMIC-Logo-1536x357.png 1536w, https:\/\/ub.meduniwien.ac.at\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/COSMIC-Logo-2048x476.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tumor classification, histology\u00a0subtyping\u00a0and variant annotation are often treated as background tasks. But without rigorous standardization, cohort building becomes\u00a0subjective,\u00a0comparisons break down\u00a0and rare cancer insights are lost.<\/p>\n<p>Join this free expert webinar on <strong>March 19, 2026 at 5 p.m. CET,<\/strong> where you\u2019ll get an in-depth look at how the <a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.go.qiagen.com\/e\/er?cmpid=CM_QDI_CLIN_COSMIC-Labroots-Webinar-March_0326_EM_12307_18817&amp;elq_cid=5769146&amp;elq_mid=18817&amp;utm_source=CM_QDI_CLIN_COSMIC-Labroots-Webinar-March_0326_EM&amp;emhash=&amp;s=879906444&amp;lid=29316&amp;elqTrackId=AC2B94C276FB958B449C34E5BA07517B&amp;elq=750ac19b97ed41afb028f4d737d54f57&amp;elqaid=18817&amp;elqat=1&amp;elqak=8AF5729B858D3342E8A4E7EBA2F51DABFAABA0D33A4D42B739E71104EFA5BD0013EA\" data-targettype=\"webpage\">Catalogue Of Somatic Mutations In Cancer (COSMIC)<\/a>\u00a0enables:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Precise tumor classification mapped to NCI Thesaurus and EFO<\/li>\n<li>Controlled histology conversion for rare cancer cohort construction<\/li>\n<li>Robust variant cross-mapping strategies for downstream reproducibility<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.go.qiagen.com\/e\/er?cmpid=CM_QDI_CLIN_COSMIC-Labroots-Webinar-March_0326_EM_12307_18817&amp;elq_cid=5769146&amp;elq_mid=18817&amp;emhash=&amp;s=879906444&amp;lid=29315&amp;elqTrackId=B337268B2A1F0589EC310F5C24E2FC56&amp;elq=750ac19b97ed41afb028f4d737d54f57&amp;elqaid=18817&amp;elqat=1&amp;elqak=8AF5B40DCDC9B75D5DD632FF0C7F05F22333A0D33A4D42B739E71104EFA5BD0013EA\"><strong>&#8211;&gt;&gt; Registration link<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Can&#8217;t make it at this time?<\/strong> Don&#8217;t worry. Register now, and you will be sent an on-demand recording.<\/p>\n<p>MedUni Vienna offers its members upon registration free access to COSMIC: <a href=\"https:\/\/ub-blog.meduniwien.ac.at\/blog\/?p=48832\">https:\/\/ub-blog.meduniwien.ac.at\/blog\/?p=48832<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tumor classification, histology\u00a0subtyping\u00a0and variant annotation are often treated as background tasks. But without rigorous standardization, cohort building becomes\u00a0subjective,\u00a0comparisons break down\u00a0and rare cancer insights are lost. Join this free expert webinar on March 19, 2026 at 5 p.m. CET, where you\u2019ll get an in-depth look at how the Catalogue Of Somatic Mutations In Cancer (COSMIC)\u00a0enables: Precise &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ub.meduniwien.ac.at\/blog\/?p=49015\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">COSMIC webinar: &#8222;Standardize tumor classification and variant annotation for reproducible cohort building with COSMIC&#8220;, March 19, 2026<\/span> weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":365,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1912],"tags":[3548,3549,3535,99,3280,3550,3284],"class_list":["post-49015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemeines","category-datenbanken","category-schulungen","tag-cancer","tag-cancer-research","tag-genom-mutationen","tag-krebs","tag-krebsforschung","tag-tumor-classification","tag-webinar"],"views":418,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ub.meduniwien.ac.at\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ub.meduniwien.ac.at\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ub.meduniwien.ac.at\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ub.meduniwien.ac.at\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/365"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ub.meduniwien.ac.at\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49015"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ub.meduniwien.ac.at\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49018,"href":"https:\/\/ub.meduniwien.ac.at\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49015\/revisions\/49018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ub.meduniwien.ac.at\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ub.meduniwien.ac.at\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ub.meduniwien.ac.at\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}