The dataset of somatic mutations contains TP53 somatic mutations that have been identified by sequencing and published in the peer- reviewed literature. This includes mutations reported in human tumor samples as well as in human cell-lines.

Three types of information are available:

⁽¹⁾ Statistics on previous releases:

* Data may be deleted if (1) they correspond to duplicate entries or (2) errors. Publication of the same set of samples in different papers by the same authors is a serious problem that has led to duplicates entries in the database in the past. We now perform systematic searches of the database under the author’s name to identify earlier entries that may correspond to the same dataset. We have also extensively reviewed the entire dataset in order to find and eliminate these duplicates. However, despite these efforts, some duplicates may remain in the database and their identification is an ongoing task.

** Papers edited in PubMed at the indicated dates were searched with selected keywords and reviewed to extract relevant data.

*** This dataset has not been updated with data published in 2007.