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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....
Recent work by a consortium of researchers demonstrates that a novel, network-based, analytical approach is effective in identifying predictive biomarkers of chemotherapy response in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) patient-derived xenografts (PDX) models. An update to this tool was presented at the 2024 AACR annual meeting.The work was led by a team at Baylor College of Medicine, who recently published the paper, Identifying biomarkers of differential chemotherapy response in TNBC pati....
Read the four-part series on NCI’s Cancer Research Data Commons’ history, resources, standards, and future initiatives. The articles are now available online in “Cancer Research,” one of the flagship journals of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR).
Find harmonized demographic and clinical data in this new data commons from NCI’s Childhood Cancer Data Initiative!
Are you planning to attend this year’s American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting? Make sure to add these NCI-affiliated data science activities to your schedule!