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The CRDC team presented at the 2024 AACR Annual Meeting in an NCI-Sponsored Session highlighting the impact of the CRDC on the broad cancer research community. The presentations from the CBIIT Director and members of the Informatics and Data Science Program provided insightful overviews, inspiring success stories, valuable lessons learned, and future plans for the CRDC. Erika Kim, PhD, served as moderator, and dynamic discussions with attendees followed the presentations.Ina Felau, MS, started t....
In case you missed it: The CRDC team published a four-part series that was published online on March 15, 2024 in Cancer Research, one of the flagship journals of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). The series will be included in the May 2, 2024 hardcopy edition. The lead authors and editors include Anthony (Tony) Kerlavage, Jill S. Barnholtz-Sloan, Tanja Davidsen, Erika Kim, David Pot, Arthur Brady, Erin Beck, Heather Creasy, Zhining Wang, along with dozens of colleagues o....
The Genomic Data Commons (GDC) is hosting a webinar to showcase its newly introduced genomic mutation analysis now featured on its updated platform, GDC 2.0. This enhanced platform empowers users to create customized case collections for performing gene- and variant-level data analysis within their web browsers.Included TopicsCreating custom cohorts with the GDC Cohort Builder for specific cancer disease typesEmploying the Mutation Frequency Tool to visualize the most frequently mutated genes wi....
New features recently added to the Integrated Canine Data Commons (ICDC) portal make it easier for users to find and analyze data. The ICDC was established to advance research on human cancers by enabling comparative analysis with canine cancers, given similarities in types of cancer and response to therapeutics between canines and humans. It now houses data from 12 scientific studies, with nearly 1,000 samples from more than 20 disease sites.The newly-added features make it easier for user....
The Cancer Data Aggregator (CDA) is a one-stop source for all types of users searching for data across the CRDC Data Commons.The CDA includes compiled, standardized, and indexed data from the Genomic Data Commons, Imaging Data Commons, Proteomic Data Commons, and Cancer Data Services. It facilitates search using harmonized, common language terms, making it possible to find information about subjects, files, or specimens in a standard dataframe format (TSV) that can be opened in Excel, integrated....