To test this function, we generated time-series queries spanning from 1975 to 2016 (Fig. 4) and involving two different dataset: 1) a set of manually defined cancer genes (TP53, KRAS, NRAS, HRAS, ASXL1, IDH1, IDH2, TET2, SETBP1) as well as the housekeeping genes GAPDH and GUSB; 2) a set of 10 genes randomly extracted from the CGC (ARID1A, HMGA2, KIF5B, NUP214 and RBM15) and nCan (ALMS1, DCAF17, GPD1L, WFS1 and RBM10) lists. This evidence concerns the gene NRAS and cancer.