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Comparative and Functional Genomics Comp Funct Genom 2001; 2: 35–43. Website Review Cancer and the web Mark Robert Albertella* KuDOS Pharmaceuticals Ltd, 327 Cambridge Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 0WG, UK Abstract *Correspondence to: M. R. Albertella, KuDOS The applications of functional genomics, proteomics and informatics to cancer research Pharmaceuticals Ltd, have yielded a tremendous amount of information, which is growing all the time. Much 327 Cambridge Science Park, of this information is available publicly on the Internet and ranges from general Milton Road, Cambridge information about different cancers from a patient or clinical viewpoint, through to CB4 0WG, UK. E-mail: databases suitable for cancer researchers of all backgrounds, to very specific malbertella@kudospharma.co.uk sites dedicated to individual genes or molecules. A simple search for ‘cancer’ from a typical Web browser search engine yields more than half a million hits; an even more specific search for ‘leukaemia’ ( 40 000 hits) or ‘p53’ ( 5700 hits) yields far too many hits to allow one to identify particular sites of interest. This review aims to provide a brief guide to some of the resources and databases that can be used as springboards to home in rapidly on information relevant to many fields of cancer research. As such, this article will not focus on a single website but hopes to illustrate some of the ways that