MSK-CHORD (MSK, Nature 2024)
Targeted sequencing of 25040 tumors from 24950 patients and their matched normals via MSK-IMPACT, along with clinical annotations, some of which are derived from natural language processing (denoted NLP). This data is available under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. For commercial use, please contact datarequests@mskcc.org
Can it answer your research question?
3 of 6 supportedOverall survival
SupportedVital status and time are populated; median follow-up 2.1 years; 24,950 cases with follow-up; endpoint: overall survival.API
Progression or recurrence
Not measuredThis field was not among those probed for this repository.
Treatment response
Not supportedNo treatment response is recorded in the harmonized records.API
Which drug was given
Supportedtherapeutic_agentsis recorded for 86% of cases.APIStage-adjusted modelling
Not measuredThis field was not among those probed for this repository.
Analysis by race or ethnicity
SupportedRACE is informative for 96% of cases.API
At a glance
Every percentage is the repository’s own record of what is filled inSubjectCALC
As filed by the repository
Who is in the cohortAPI
- Sex13,874 Female · 11,073 Male · 3 Unknown
- Race19,542 White · 1,965 Asian-Far East/Indian Subcont · 1,770 Black Or African American · 713 3 other · 724 Pt Refused To Answer · 209 Unknown · 27 No Value Entered
- Ethnicity22,373 Non-Spanish; Non-Hispanic · 1,279 Spanish NOS; Hispanic NOS, Latino NOS · 121 South/Central America (except Brazil) · 174 6 other · 1,000 Unknown whether Spanish or not · 3 Unknown
- Vital status13,653 LIVING · 11,297 DECEASED
What was measured, and on how many
- Mutation calls (panel, exome or genome)25,040 of 25,040 samples · 100%
- Copy number alterations25,034 of 25,040 samples · >99%
- Structural variants / fusions
- Structured treatment records21,473 of 24,950 · 86%
How complete all 8 clinical fields are - 8 informative for at least 80% of cases
Access
Processed data download from the cBioPortal study page or its public REST API; no account required. Primary raw data remain wherever the original investigators deposited them.
- Open components
- harmonized mutation, copy-number, expression and clinical files
- License
- Per-study terms; cBioPortal asks that the original study be cited
- Citation requirement
- Cite the original publication, and cite cBioPortal if the portal's harmonized files were used.
What it is good for
Written and checked by a reviewer, not generated from metadata.
No reviewed research questions yet. The measurements and field completeness above are machine-extracted and still useful for judging fit.
What it cannot tell you
Written by a reviewer against the source, not inferred from what is missing.
No reviewed limitations yet. Check the field completeness chart above before committing to an analysis. Low coverage on an endpoint you need is the most common blocker.
Who has used it
Articles that analyzed these data, counted separately from articles that only cited the paper. Only the first counts as reuse.
- Not assessed: this dataset has no accession specific enough for citation-based reuse tracing, so a shortfall cannot be measured.
Original publication
Articles that analyzed the data
Not searchable. See the note above.
Community examples
Share your exampleAnalyses someone ran on these data end to end, each with a receipt recording when it ran, against which packages and for how long.
Nobody has shared an analysis of this dataset yet. The examples on other datasets cover the common patterns and can be adapted - and if you adapt one, it belongs here.
Start here
Starter code generated from this record’s own identifiers, then the access steps.
Get the data in code
cBioPortal: clinical data and the full study bundlepython
import requests, pandas as pd
STUDY = "msk_chord_2024"
base = "https://www.cbioportal.org/api"
clin = requests.get(f"{base}/studies/{STUDY}/clinical-data",
params={"clinicalDataType": "PATIENT", "projection": "SUMMARY"}, timeout=60).json()
patients = pd.DataFrame(clin).pivot_table(index="patientId", columns="clinicalAttributeId",
values="value", aggfunc="first")
print(patients.shape)
profiles = requests.get(f"{base}/studies/{STUDY}/molecular-profiles", timeout=60).json()
print([p["molecularProfileId"] for p in profiles])
# Whole study as flat files: https://cbioportal-datahub.s3.amazonaws.com/msk_chord_2024.tar.gzThis page as data: limitations firstbash
curl -s https://cd2s.vercel.app/data/datasets/cbio-msk-chord-2024.json | python3 -c '
import json, sys
r = json.load(sys.stdin)
for l in r["limitations"]:
print(l["severity"].upper(), "-", l["statement"][:120])
print("survival endpoint:", r["longitudinal"]["has_survival_endpoint"], "| treatment response:", r["longitudinal"]["has_treatment_response"])'Access steps
- Open the study in cBioPortalFor people
Harmonized molecular and clinical files are open. Cite the original publication, and cite cBioPortal if the portal's harmonized files were used.
https://www.cbioportal.org/study/summary?id=msk_chord_2024 - Download the whole study as a zipFor people
The datasets page carries the staging files used by the portal.
https://www.cbioportal.org/datasets - Or pull the staging files with git-lfsFor people
Study folders are named by study id under public/.
https://github.com/cBioPortal/datahubgit clone https://github.com/cBioPortal/datahub.git && cd datahub git -c lfs.fetchexclude="" lfs pull -I public/msk_chord_2024 - Read the study straight from the REST APIFor agents
No key is required; pace requests when sweeping many studies.
https://docs.cbioportal.org/web-api-and-clients/curl -s 'https://www.cbioportal.org/api/studies/msk_chord_2024/clinical-data?clinicalDataType=PATIENT&projection=SUMMARY'
Provenance
All of it, and more, is in this record’s JSON.
Identifiers
- cBioPortal studymsk_chord_2024API
Versions and verification
- Metadata retrieved
- 18 Sept 2026
- Review status
- Machine-extracted
- Data generation funding
- Funded data generation
Funding
Funded data generation
- T32CA009207Investigational Cancer Therapeutics Training Program (ICTTP)Omar Abdel-Wahab, Alexander DrilonAPI
- R01CA240472Targeting SNP BRMS1v2 A273V/A273V to reduce metastases in lung adenocarcinomaDavid R JonesAPI
- R01CA234361Defining mechanisms of resistance to hormonal therapy in breast cancerSarat Chandarlapaty, David B. SolitAPI
- R01CA217169BRMS1-mediated suppression of metastases in p53 mutant lung adenocarcinomaDavid R JonesAPI
- P50CA092629SPORE in Prostate CancerYu Chen, MICHAEL J MORRISAPI
- P30CA008748Antitumor AssessmentElisa de Stanchina, FRANCESCA M GANYAPI
- P01CA275746Core B: Molecular Pathology and Bioinformatics CoreMichael F. Berger, Deborah SchragAPI
- P01CA228696Administrative CorePHILIP W KANTOFF, CHARLES L. SAWYERSAPI
- K12CA184746MSK Paul Calabresi Career Development Award for Clinical OncologyOmar Abdel-Wahab, Simon N. PowellAPI
- K08CA286842Automatic integrated biomarkers to improve prediction of lung cancer outcomesJustin JeeAPI