This year, the Cancer Research Data Commons (CRDC) marks five years as a Driver Project with the Global Alliance for Genomic and Health (GA4GH). The GA4GH is an international non-profit collaboration of organizations in the research community dedicated to advancing human health by developing technic....
Several members of the CRDC team recently published an assessment of publications that reference CRDC-housed data and/or the use of NCI Cloud Resources and the analytical tools CRDC makes publicly available. The paper titled, “Usage of the National Cancer Institute Cancer Research Data Commons by ....
The CRDC collaborates with many NIH programs, offering its data, resources, and expertise. In this issue: an update on the MIDI-B Challenge, which focused on automated image de-identification. Also in this issue: an update on the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) and the wo....
A collaborative effort between a research team at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and ISB Cancer Gateway in the Cloud (ISB-CGC) enhanced the cloud-based data infrastructure needed to conduct a large breast cancer research consortium study, leveraging Google BigQuery data tables an....
The newest of CRDC’s Data Commons, the Clinical and Translational Data Commons (CTDC), was publicly launched in September. The CTDC was developed to house a wide array of clinical and translational data from NCI-funded clinical trials, correlative studies, and interventional studies. Users can exp....