Clinical and Translational Data Commons
(CTDC)
Overview
The Clinical and Translational Data Commons (CTDC) accelerates scientific discoveries that make an impact on cancer outcomes to help people live longer, healthier lives, by reducing barriers to data access and use from NCI-funded clinical and translational studies. CTDC features include:
- Data Exploration dashboard to quickly visualize and refine searches of CTDC data,
- Multiple data types including clinical and molecular/sequencing data,
- Data harmonization across studies through alignment with NCI’s Cancer Data Standards Registry and Repository (caDSR) Common Data Elements (CDEs),
- Data visualization and analysis on the cloud via Seven Bridges Cancer Genomics Cloud, from Velsera,
- Developer resources including a Graphical User Interface (GUI) and an Application Programming Interface (API), and
- Federated identity management system for easy, secure access to registered and controlled access data.
Data Types
In addition to the metadata for filtering and sorting, the CTDC provides access to multiple data file types available for analysis.
- Clinical data and reports – txt, pdf
- Molecular findings and sequence annotation – vcf, bam
Datasets
Cancer Moonshot Biobank
The Cancer Moonshot Biobank collects tissue, blood samples, and medical information, from late stage cancer patients throughout the course of their cancer treatment. This will help researchers better understand how cancer changes over time and over the course of medical treatments.
Additional datasets will be released as they become available.