Discover the right licence for you
COSMIC is part of the Wellcome Sanger Institute and is self-sustaining via a novel licensing model. It is fully committed to providing the academic cancer research community open access to its exemplary mutation data. To ensure our future, we have implemented a business model by which we license COSMIC for commercial use. Whether you are part of a commercial organisation or an academic institution, explore our licensing options to get started.
Academic use
To support global cancer research, COSMIC data is free for the academic community, enabling those educating and conducting research in non-profit settings to access high-quality somatic mutation data that drives discoveries.
Academic use refers to the use of the COSMIC data, either from the website or from the downloads, in research and development within a not-for-profit organisation only.
Commercial use
Through licensing fees, commercial customers play a vital role in supporting COSMIC’s research and development, enabling us to expand and enhance our world-leading cancer mutation Knowledgebase.
Commercial use refers to the use of the COSMIC data either from the downloads or from the website:
- In a commercial product or service
- In patient service or in clinical reporting
- In research and development (commercial /for-profit setting)
- In product specs/ information for panels and reference material, including public facing websites
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Access COSMIC
All users must be registered to use the COSMIC Knowledgebase.
Please use your organisational email address to register for an account.
Commercial users will be contacted by our commercial team following the registration process to complete their licensing agreement.