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Former Member
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This is probably not the right forum but I was just curious if the WCG might have any involvement with the upcoming Cancer Genome Atlas project that was recently announced by the NIH/NCI/NHGRI. This would seem to be ideal project considered the computational capacity of the WCG the requirements of the WCG (i.e. public domain, benefit humanity, etc).
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retsof
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Apparently, you must already have cancer to donate. It's a physical study:
----------------------------------------Eligible cancer patients will be asked to donate a small portion of tumor tissue that has been removed as part of their cancer treatment. The tissue will be collected for a research study and will not affect the patient’s medical care in any way. It mentions gene sequencing, but on this tissue.
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Apparently, you must already have cancer to donate. It's a physical study: Eligible cancer patients will be asked to donate a small portion of tumor tissue that has been removed as part of their cancer treatment. The tissue will be collected for a research study and will not affect the patient’s medical care in any way. It mentions gene sequencing, but on this tissue. I understand the physical study portion, but what I'm assuming is that there will be some sort of significant computational analysis after various cancer samples have been supplied to attempt to map out each one's particular genome. Maybe I'm wrong? |
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beavin
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They apparently are using another grid.... one of the links on the NIH website has this:
http://cancergenome.nih.gov/related/cabig.asp Quoting from this webpage.... "The cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid™, or caBIG™, is a voluntary network or grid connecting individuals and institutions to enable the sharing of data and tools, creating a World Wide Web of cancer research." This is a link to the homepage for this grid... https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/ |
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Former Member
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They apparently are using another grid... Looking further, their grid looks more like a sharing/standardisation exercise than a large distributed data processing grid. I imagine that some researchers using the Atlas may still need the services of WCG, or spend megabucks on supercomputer time. |
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