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Announcing the NCI Cancer Data Aggregator (CDA) – A new collaboration led by Broad Institute in partnership with NCI, SBG, and ISB

Liz Kiernan July 16, 2020

In the last decade, we’ve seen exponential growth in the amount and breadth of cancer research data. We’ve harnessed the power of cloud repositories to host large oncology datasets, including genomics, proteomics, imaging, and more! Although this diversity in datasets is a strength, combining these data to leverage the full range of information […]

Single Cell Portal for collaborations

Amanda Kedaigle October 25, 2019

In this post, Amanda Kedaigle, a computational scientist from the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research is describing her experience with the Single-Cell Portal (SCP), a data visualization portal built on top of Terra. As a computational biologist, two words that are constantly used to describe my work are “collaborative” and “interdisciplinary” […]

Ontology and automation: a powerful DUO for streamlining data access

Jonathan Lawson September 25, 2019

Life as a biomedical researcher is a rollercoaster of emotions. One moment you’re marvelling at how technology has revolutionized the field — SO. MUCH. DATA. — and the next, you’re tearing your hair out at how antiquated some of our processes still are — SO. MUCH. PAPERWORK. Yes, there is a veritable cornucopia […]