Merkel carcinoma cell line availability?

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Amos Bairoch

While there are more than 50 MCC cell lines:

https://web.expasy.org/cgi-bin/cellosaurus/search?input=C9231

Only a few are widely used and are fully characterized (exome, RNASeq, etc). These are:

MCC13:

https://web.expasy.org/cellosaurus/CVCL_2583

MCC14/2:

https://web.expasy.org/cellosaurus/CVCL_2584

MCC26:

https://web.expasy.org/cellosaurus/CVCL_2585

MS-1:

https://web.expasy.org/cellosaurus/CVCL_E995

Gavin Mcstay

thank you Amos Bairoch - I will look through what you sent