Tag Archive: Bioinformatics

Apr 15

Computational Needs for Large-scale Data Analysis: Towards a Cancer Knowledge Cloud

Biology is increasingly joining the ranks of the data-intensive sciences through increased use of “-omics” technologies (next-generation sequencing, expression profiling, proteomics, methylation studies, etc.) and the large-scale use of a variety of imaging technologies in research. This is great for scientists and the patients who are going to benefit from the research, but it poses …

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Feb 20

NCIP’s Open-Development Strategy Enables Community-Driven Cancer Informatics Software Development

The NCIP is committed to advancing cancer research through improving biomedical informatics, and we believe that active participation by the broad community is the most effective way to accomplish this. To that end, we have made significant advances in our plan to engage the biomedical-research, informatics, and developer communities by lowering the barrier to community-driven …

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Oct 15

Cultivating Collaborations on Imaging Research and Informatics

Within the National Cancer Institute (NCI), there is new potential for an increasingly beneficial collaboration between the Cancer Imaging Program (CIP) in the Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis (DCTD) and the Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT) in the Office of the Director.  The Institute’s recent launch of the National Cancer Informatics …

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Aug 15

Ephemeral Images, Indelible Data: The Promises and Challenges of Digital Imaging as Applied to Pathology

  Those of us working in biomedical informatics are well aware that one of our omnipresent challenges is overcoming the disparity between our capacity to use high-throughput research technologies to produce huge quantities of data, which is now very high, and our practical ability to store, aggregate, analyze, and integrate the resulting mountains of heterogeneous …

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Aug 03

Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) Bioinformatics

Word Cloud for Ying Xiao imaging presentation

The NCI-supported Cooperative Groups conduct national- and international-scale multicenter clinical trials.  They face escalating computational challenges as the amount of clinical trials data generated by a multiplicity of research technologies and clinical observations continues to expand. As part of our ongoing Speaker Series, we recently invited Dr. Ying Xiao to discuss informatics initiatives being undertaken …

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Jul 17

G-DOC: Enabling Systems Medicine Through Innovations in Informatics

These are exciting times for cancer research.  The rapid evolution and decreasing cost of omics technologies provide unprecedented opportunities to improve individual patient diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment.  To fully realize this goal, however, requires integrating and analyzing data from the laboratory and the clinic in a way that is meaningful and useful to health-care providers.  …

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Jun 28

Fresh Start for Informatics at NCI

Welcome to the new NCIP blog, and thank you for reading our inaugural post. We plan to use this platform to share information with the community, patient advocates, scientists, and our internal team. Additionally, we hope to collaborate informally and brainstorm toward real research solutions. This blog reflects NCIP’s research interests, priorities, and initiatives, and …

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