Informatics Technology for Cancer Research (ITCR) initiative [itcr]

Annual Meeting 2014

Informatics Technology for Cancer Research (ITCR) Initiative Annual PI Meeting 2014

The Informatics Technology for Cancer Research (ITCR) Initiative held its Annual PI Meeting on June 12-13, 2014 in Rockville, MD. The agenda and presentations are referenced below. All presentations are also available here.

June 12, 2014 (Day One)
9:00	Shuttle bus leaves hotel
9:10-9:25	Check in and registration
9:30-9:40	Opening Remarks – Jerry Li, NCI
9:40-10:05	Keynote Presentation I - Warren Kibbe, Director, Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT), NCI Clinical Genomics, the Cancer Genomic Data Commons, and the NCI Cloud Pilot
Session I	ITCR Project Progress Report Session Chair: Rao Divi, NCI
10:05-10:30	UCSC Project - David Haussler/Jing Zhu The UCSC Xena System
10:30-10:55	Johns Hopkins University Project - Rachel Karchin CRAVAT and MuPIT: Updates and Plans for the Upcoming Year
10:55-11:10	Break
11:10-11:35	Broad Institute Project - Aviv Regev Towards Reconstructing and Annotating the Cancer Transcriptome with Trinity
11:35-12:00	Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Project - Shirley Liu Cistrome: A Transcriptional and Epigenetic Regulation Encyclopedia in Cancer
12:00-1:00	Lunch
1:00-1:25	Keynote Presentation II - James Cimino, Chief, Laboratory for Informatics Development, NIH Clinical Center The NIH Clinical Research Data Repository: Sources, Structure, and Access
Session II	ITCR Project Progress Report (Continued) Session Chair: Larry Clarke, NCI
1:25-1:50	University of Pittsburgh Project - Rebecca Crowley TIES Cancer Research Network
1:50-2:15	Brigham & Women’s Hospital Project - Ron Kikinis/Andriy Fedorov Quantitative Image Informatics for Cancer Research (QIICR)
2:15-2:40	University of Texas HSC/MD Anderson Cancer Center Project – Elmer Bernstam/Funda Merick-Bernstam Informatics to Enable Routine Personalized Cancer Therapy
2:40-2:55	Break
Session III	Introduction of New ITCR Projects Session Chair: Christos Patriotis, NCI
2:55-3:15	University of Pittsburgh/Boston Children’s Hospital Project – Guergana Savova Cancer Deep Phenotyping
3:15-3:35	UCSD Project - Trey Ideker NDEx- The Network Data Exchange: Crowdsourcing the Hallmark Networks of Cancer
3:35-3:55	PNNL Project - Bobbie-Jo Webb-Robertson Interactive Informatics Resource for Research-driven Cancer Proteomics
3:55-4:15	University of Southern California Project – Ben Berman Tools to Infer Tumor-Specific Transcriptional Networks by Combining Reference Epigenome Atlases with Patient DNA Methylation Profiles
4:15-4:35	Mass General Hospital Project – Hiro Yoshida Cloud- Supercomputer-Aided Diagnostic Imaging Decision Support System
4:35-4:45	Break
4:45-6:00	Demonstrations and Project Collaboration Meetings
6:05	Shuttle bus to hotel
7:00-9:00	Group Dinner That’s Amore Restaurant, 15201 Shady Grove Rd, Rockville, MD
June 13, 2014 (Day Two)
8:30	Shuttle bus leaves hotel
8:40-8:55	Check in
9:00-9:20	Update of the NCIP Hub Ishwar Chandramouliswaran, CBIIT, NCI
9:20-9:40	Dana Farber Cancer Institute Project - John Quackenbush MeV: Software for Next Generation Genomic Data Analysis
9:40-10:40	Group Discussion Co-Chairs: Rebecca Crowley and Aviv Regev
10:40-10:55	Break
10:55-11:15	Keynote Presentation III: Louis Staudt, Director, Center for Cancer Genomics, NCI NCI Support for Cancer Genome Informatics
11:15-11:55	Introduction of Inter-Project Collaborations Joint Xena-Trinity-Cistrome-Cravat/MuPIT collaboration UTH/MD Anderson - U Pittsburgh-Boston Children’s Hospital collaboration Johns Hopkins - UTH/MD Anderson collaboration Brigham & Women’s Hospital - UTH/MD Anderson collaboration
11:55-12:00	Closing Remarks
12:00	Meeting Adjourned