The recently released Portable Format for Bioinformatics (PFB) from the Broad Institute's FireCloud is a new way to transfer data from the Proteomic Data Commons (PDC) to the FireCloud platform. With PFB, users can easily identify the data they need within the PDC by applying metadata filters, and then with a single click, the data will be transferred to FireCloud for analysis. 

FireCloud is a cloud-based analytical platform – one of three NCI-funded cloud resources included in the CRDC – that provides a variety of tools, workflows, and compute environments, where researchers can analyze large volumes of data. 

Documentation for this new functionality is on the PDC portal.

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