Table 1 Structure of the Biomarker References and Online Resources Provided

1. Guideline and Meeting Reports

2. Clinical Trials

A. Recent Immunotherapy Trials in Cancer Patients - Positive Randomized Phase III Studies

B. Emerging Biomarkers for Immunotherapy of Cancer - Clinical Trials

C. Correlation between Immune Response and Clinical Outcome in Cancer Patients; Positive Studies

3. Gene Expression Profiling in Cancer Immunotherapy

4. Useful Reviews

5. Bioinformatics for Biomarkers Discovery

6. New Technologies for Biomarkers Discovery

7. Standardization and Harmonization of Sample Collection and Use of Immunological Assays

A. Processing, Storage and Shipping of Blood Samples and Serum for Immunological Studies - Technical Considerations

B. Cellular Immunotherapy: Characterization of Cellular Products

C. Assay Standardization and Harmonization

D. Assays for Determination of Antitumor Immune-Response in Clinical Trials

8. Reporting Biomarkers Data in Publications

Part II. High Throughput and New Technologies for Biomarker Discovery: Arrays, Platforms, Tools for The Bench and Online Resources

1. Genomic Biomarkers Discovery

A. Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) Arrays

B. Comparative Genomic Hybridization (CGH) Arrays

C. Mitochondrial Genome Arrays

2. Epigenomic Biomarkers Discovery

A. Methylation Arrays

B. microRNA (miRNA) Arrays

C. Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (ChIP) Arrays (ChIP on chip)

3. Transcriptomic Biomarkers Discovery

A. Expression Arrays

B. Quantitative Assays

4. Proteomic Biomarkers Discovery

A. Protein and Phosphoprotein Assays

B. Multicolor Cytometric Systems

5. Next Generation Sequencing: Whole Genomic and Transcriptomic Sequencing Systems

6. Software and Tools for Data Analysis

A. Microarrays/Sequencing Data Analysis

B. Next Generation Sequencing Data Analysis

C. Multicolor Cytometric Data Analysis

7. Software and Tools for Function and Pathway Analysis

8. siRNA Libraries

9. Public Databases

10. Tools for the Bench and Other Useful Websites

A. Primer Design Software

B. Transcription Factors Binding Sites Prediction Software

C. Design of Antisense Oligonucleotides, Nucleic Acid Probes, siRNA Software

D. miRNA Prediction

E. Alternative Splicing Analysis

F. Linkage Disequilibrium Analysis

G. Analysis Support, Laboratory Optimization and Other Useful Websites

H. Nanotechnology

I. Clinical Trials Registries