The Genomic Data Commons for cancer research
April 29, 2018
The Genomic Data Commons
The Genomic Data Commons (GDC) is a next-generation platform that enables unprecedented data access, analysis and sharing for cancer research. Cancer researchers can access these data for analyses and submit their own datasets to share with the research community. By making high-quality data broadly accessible, the GDC provides much-needed tools to accelerate studies of the biological mechanisms of cancer and the development of personalized treatments for individual patients.
UChicago developed and operates the Data Commons with National Cancer Institute (NCI) funding. In 2016, the GDC went live with approximately 4.1 petabytes of data from NCI-supported research programs, including some of the largest and most comprehensive cancer genomics datasets in the world. Since the launch, researchers at the GDC have built upon what they have learned to develop additional data commons for infectious diseases and disorders of the brain, heart, lungs, and blood. In this video, researchers and university administrators describe the enormous value of the GDC and look toward its future.
VP Joe Biden attends GDC launch
Vice President Joe Biden arrives to launch the NCI Genomic Data Commons (GDC), a system designed and developed by the Center for Data Intensive Science at the University of Chicago and presented Monday, June 6, 2016, at their office in the Shoreland in Chicago. (Photo by Robert Kozloff)
VP Joe Biden attends GDC launch
Vice President Joe Biden greets Kenneth Polonsky, MD, executive vice president for Medical Affairs, as he arrives to launch the NCI Genomic Data Commons (GDC), a system designed and developed by the Center for Data Intensive Science at the University of Chicago and presented Monday, June 6, 2016, at their office in the Shoreland in Chicago. (Photo by Robert Kozloff)
VP Joe Biden attends GDC launch
Vice President Joe Biden greets Kenneth Polonsky, MD, executive vice president for Medical Affairs, and Prof. Robert Grossman, MD, right, Department of Medicine and the College and Senior Fellow with the Computation Institute, as he arrives to launch the NCI Genomic Data Commons (GDC), a system designed and developed by the Center for Data Intensive Science at the University of Chicago and presented Monday, June 6, 2016, at their office in the Shoreland in Chicago. At left is Douglas Lowy, MD, acting director of the National Cancer Institute. (Photo by Robert Kozloff)
VP Joe Biden attends GDC launch
Vice President Joe Biden talks with Prof. Robert Grossman, MD, Department of Medicine and the College and Senior Fellow with the Computation Institute, and Louis M. Staudt, MD, PhD, with the NCI, as they launch the NCI Genomic Data Commons (GDC), a system designed and developed by the Center for Data Intensive Science at the University of Chicago and presented Monday, June 6, 2016, at their office in the Shoreland in Chicago. (Photo by Robert Kozloff)
VP Joe Biden attends GDC launch
Vice President Joe Biden talks with Prof. Robert Grossman, MD, Department of Medicine and the College and Senior Fellow with the Computation Institute, and Louis M. Staudt, MD, PhD, with the NCI, as they launch the NCI Genomic Data Commons (GDC), a system designed and developed by the Center for Data Intensive Science at the University of Chicago and presented Monday, June 6, 2016, at their office in the Shoreland in Chicago. (Photo by Robert Kozloff)
VP Joe Biden attends GDC launch
Vice President Joe Biden talks with Prof. Robert Grossman, MD, Department of Medicine and the College and Senior Fellow with the Computation Institute, and Louis M. Staudt, MD, PhD, right, with the NCI, as they tour the NCI Genomic Data Commons (GDC), a system designed and developed by the Center for Data Intensive Science at the University of Chicago and presented Monday, June 6, 2016, at their office in the Shoreland in Chicago. (Photo by Robert Kozloff)
VP Joe Biden attends GDC launch
Vice President Joe Biden thanks Josh Miller, software engineer, with Allison Heath,PhD, technical director of the GDC, as he tours the NCI Genomic Data Commons (GDC), a system designed and developed by the Center for Data Intensive Science at the University of Chicago and presented Monday, June 6, 2016, at their office in the Shoreland in Chicago. (Photo by Robert Kozloff)
VP Joe Biden attends GDC launch
Vice President Joe Biden talks with Barbara Stranger, PhD, Piers Nash, right, both with GDC, as the vice president toured the NCI Genomic Data Commons (GDC), a system designed and developed by the Center for Data Intensive Science at the University of Chicago and presented Monday, June 6, 2016, at their office in the Shoreland in Chicago. (Photo by Robert Kozloff)
VP Joe Biden attends GDC launch
Vice President Joe Biden talks with Zhenyu Shang, PhD, and Sue Cohn, MD, as the vice president toured the NCI Genomic Data Commons (GDC), a system designed and developed by the Center for Data Intensive Science at the University of Chicago and presented Monday, June 6, 2016, at their office in the Shoreland in Chicago. (Photo by Robert Kozloff)
VP Joe Biden attends GDC launch
Vice President Joe Biden tours the NCI Genomic Data Commons (GDC), a system designed and developed by the Center for Data Intensive Science at the University of Chicago and presented Monday, June 6, 2016, at their office in the Shoreland in Chicago. (Photo by Robert Kozloff)