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  • Genomic medicine
  • Bioinformatics
  • Computational oncology

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  • Precision oncology relies on linking tumor genetic variants to their clinical significance.
  • The Clinical Interpretations for Variants in Cancer (CIViC) knowledgebase provides structured data on variant utility.
  • Existing methods for programmatic access to CIViC data often lead to redundant development.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a software development kit (SDK) for efficient extraction and analysis of CIViC knowledgebase content.
  • To create CIViCpy to enable users to query CIViC data programmatically within Python.
  • To assess CIViCpy's utility in advancing individualized patient care through variant matching.

Main Methods:

  • Developed CIViCpy as a Python SDK for accessing and analyzing the CIViC knowledgebase.
  • Utilized CIViCpy to systematically match CIViC evidence to variants from a large cancer dataset.
  • Evaluated variants from 59,437 tumors in the American Association for Cancer Research Project GENIE dataset.

Main Results:

  • CIViCpy demonstrated rapid annotation capabilities, processing over 1,200 variants per second.
  • Achieved precise variant matches to high-level CIViC evidence (Level A/B) for 38.6% of analyzed tumors.
  • Successfully linked a significant portion of tumor variants to actionable clinical knowledge.

Conclusions:

  • CIViCpy addresses the need for high-throughput tools in clinical interpretation of cancer genomic variants.
  • The SDK facilitates interoperability and rapid analysis for downstream applications in precision oncology.
  • CIViCpy is a fully documented, open-source, and freely available resource for the research community.