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    A comprehensive infrastructure for big data in cancer research: Accelerating cancer research and precision medicine

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    2017-09-21
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    Hinkson, IV
    Davidsen, TM
    Klemm, JD
    Kerlavage, AR
    Kibbe, Warren Alden
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    © 2017 Hinkson, Davidsen, Klemm, Kerlavage and Kibbe. Advancements in next-generation sequencing and other -omics technologies are accelerating the detailed molecular characterization of individual patient tumors, and driving the evolution of precision medicine. Cancer is no longer considered a single disease, but rather, a diverse array of diseases wherein each patient has a unique collection of germline variants and somatic mutations. Molecular profiling of patient-derived samples has led to a data explosion that could help us understand the contributions of environment and germline to risk, therapeutic response, and outcome. To maximize the value of these data, an interdisciplinary approach is paramount. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has initiated multiple projects to characterize tumor samples using multi-omic approaches. These projects harness the expertise of clinicians, biologists, computer scientists, and software engineers to investigate cancer biology and therapeutic response in multidisciplinary teams. Petabytes of cancer genomic, transcriptomic, epigenomic, proteomic, and imaging data have been generated by these projects. To address the data analysis challenges associated with these large datasets, the NCI has sponsored the development of the Genomic Data Commons (GDC) and three Cloud Resources. The GDC ensures data and metadata quality, ingests and harmonizes genomic data, and securely redistributes the data. During its pilot phase, the Cloud Resources tested multiple cloud-based approaches for enhancing data access, collaboration, computational scalability, resource democratization, and reproducibility. These NCI-led efforts are continuously being refined to better support open data practices and precision oncology, and to serve as building blocks of the NCI Cancer Research Data Commons.
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    10.3389/fcell.2017.00083
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    Hinkson, IV; Davidsen, TM; Klemm, JD; Kerlavage, AR; & Kibbe, Warren Alden (2017). A comprehensive infrastructure for big data in cancer research: Accelerating cancer research and precision medicine. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 5(SEP). 10.3389/fcell.2017.00083. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/15685.
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    Warren A. Kibbe, PhD, is chief for Translational Biomedical Informatics in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and Chief Data Officer for the Duke Cancer Institute. He joined the Duke University School of Medicine in August after serving as the acting deputy director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and director of the NCI’s Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology where he oversaw 60 federal employees and more than 600 contractors, and serv
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