Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-1-2017

Publication Title

Cancer research

Keywords

Cloud Computing; Computational Biology; Datasets as Topic; Genome, Human; Genomics; Humans; Internet; National Cancer Institute (U.S.); Neoplasms; Research; Software; United States

Abstract

The ISB Cancer Genomics Cloud (ISB-CGC) is one of three pilot projects funded by the National Cancer Institute to explore new approaches to computing on large cancer datasets in a cloud environment. With a focus on Data as a Service, the ISB-CGC offers multiple avenues for accessing and analyzing The Cancer Genome Atlas, TARGET, and other important references such as GENCODE and COSMIC using the Google Cloud Platform. The open approach allows researchers to choose approaches best suited to the task at hand: from analyzing terabytes of data using complex workflows to developing new analysis methods in common languages such as Python, R, and SQL; to using an interactive web application to create synthetic patient cohorts and to explore the wealth of available genomic data. Links to resources and documentation can be found at www.isb-cgc.org

Clinical Institute

Cancer

Department

Oncology

Department

Institute for Systems Biology

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