Connecting Data to Accelerate Cancer Research

The NCI Cancer Research Data Commons (CRDC) is a cloud-based data science infrastructure that provides secure access to a large, comprehensive, and expanding collection of cancer research data. Users can explore and use analytical and visualization tools for data analysis in the cloud.

134K+ Subjects / Participants 10PB+ Data 354 Studies 2K+ Public Tools and Workflows 82.3K+ Unique Users / Year
354 Studies 134K+ Subjects / Participants 2K+ Public Tools and Workflows 82.3K+ Unique Users / Year 10PB+ Data
  • CRDCInsights
    CRDC 2024 Fall Symposium - October 16 & 17

    The Cancer Research Data Commons (CRDC) will hold its 2024 Fall Symposium on October 16th and 17th. This is a one-and-a-half-day event highlighting the CRDC’s 10th anniversary, the impact of the CRDC, and future plans. The symposium is open to the public and available for in-person or online participation.

  • CRDCInsights
    CRDC 2024 Fall Symposium - October 16 & 17

    The Cancer Research Data Commons (CRDC) will hold its 2024 Fall Symposium on October 16th and 17th. This is a one-and-a-half-day event highlighting the CRDC’s 10th anniversary, the impact of the CRDC, and future plans. The symposium is open to the public and available for in-person or online participation.

Explore

Data Commons

Share, analyze, and visualize harmonized genomic data, including TCGA, TARGET, and CPTAC.

Share, analyze, and visualize proteomic data, such as CPTAC and The International Cancer Proteogenome Consortium (ICPC).

Share, analyze, and visualize multi-modal imaging data from both clinical and basic cancer research studies.

Share data from canine clinical trials, including the PRE-medical Cancer Immunotherapy Network Canine Trials (PRECINCT) and the Comparative Oncology Program.

Store and share NCI-funded data that are not hosted elsewhere to further advance scientific discovery across a broad range of research areas.

Store and share data from NCI-funded Clinical and Translational Studies.

Core Standards and Services

Enables users to query and connect data distributed across the CRDC for integrative analysis.

Provides services to facilitate interoperability of data across CRDC.

Provides secure user authentication and authorization and permanent digital object identifiers for data objects.

Cloud Resources

Access NCI-funded datasets TARGET and TCGA along with a rich collection of other datasets and collaborative projects that are part of the biomedical ecosystem. Run analysis tools at scale and collaborate securely on a scalable cloud environment.

Explore and analyze large datasets alongside secure and scalable analytical resources for large-scale computational research.

Access data sets using fully interactive web-based applications, including BigQuery, which is hosted on Google Cloud Platform.

ABOUT CRDC

CRDC is built for researchers

  • Enable the cancer research community to share diverse data types
  • Provide secure access to data
  • Facilitate the generation of innovative tools
  • Adhere to FAIR principles of data stewardship: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable