The Genomic Data Commons Launches

Making genomic and clinical data about cancer accessible to the cancer research community is imperative for our success in applying precision medicine to clinical oncology. The NCI Genomic Data Commons (GDC), released today, brings us a step closer to realizing this goal.

By analyzing large sets of shared data with the cutting-edge bioinformatics tools, we can improve our ability discover the genomic changes that drive rare cancers, puzzle out the complexity of tumor growth and drug resistance, and identify robust targets for therapy. The GDC is a data sharing platform to facilitate these types of discoveries. The GDC initially contains NCI-generated datasets including some of the most comprehensive cancer genomic datasets in the world, The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), and the pediatric equivalent, TARGET.

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