ESAC, Rockville, Md, has launched the Proteomic Data Commons (PDC) within the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Research Data Commons (CRDC) on the cancer.gov domain.
The PDC offers the largest collection of freely available cancer proteomic data on a highly scalable Cloud-based infrastructure that facilitates bringing analysis tools to the data instead of the opposite. Whereas in the past, datasets have been analyzed with separate computational pipelines, the PDC harmonizes proteomic data with a common set of analytic pipelines to facilitate comparisons between different samples and cancer types.
The PDC makes it possible for any researcher to ask new and fundamental questions about cancer and provides tools to accelerate research and the development of personalized treatments for individual patients. Cancer researchers can now access multiomic data (proteomic, genomic, imaging, etc.) from many sources across the CRDC’s virtual, expandable infrastructure, thus lowering the entry barrier for anyone who wants to get involved in integrative research.
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