Melanoma Molecular Map Project: A useful website for clinicians and scientists

Wednesday December 9, 2009

In a recently invited review for MelNet, Professor Mike Eccles provides a brief description of the recently launched Melanoma Molecular Map Project.

“The Melanoma Molecular Map Project (or MMMP), as the website describes itself, ‘is an open access, interactive web-based multi-database dedicated to research on melanoma and therapy’.   It is designed so that it can be up-dated by researchers, and so it aims to be a definitive repository of some of the most recent findings related to melanoma biology, diagnosis and treatment.

Hosted on this website are several extensive databases of drugs and clinical trials relevant to the treatment of melanoma as well as information on molecular pathways thought to play important roles in melanoma onset, tumour growth and resistance to therapy.  The website also hosts information pages on the epidemiology of melanoma, risk factors, familial predisposition to melanoma, identification, staging, prevention and the treatment of melanoma.

In my view the Melanoma Molecular Map Project is a very useful website that I would highly recommend to clinicians and scientists working on melanoma.” 

Professor Mike Eccles is the New Zealand Institute for Cancer Research Chair in Cancer Pathology at the University of Otago.

Melanoma Molecular Map Project:
http://www.mmmp.org/MMMP/welcome.mmmp