FAIR for NanoSafety: where do we stand?

05 Apr 2019 | Contributor(s): Egon Willighagen

Nano WG April 4, 2019 Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable (FAIR) sharing of nanosafety data.

Getting Anal Cancer Screening & Participating in Research

22 Dec 2015 | Teaching Materials

Six minute video showing interviews of three HIV positive women telling their stories of living with HIV and choosing to participate in anal cancer screening as part of a clinical research project.

Human Disease Ontology

21 Sep 2016 | External Applications | Contributor(s): Lynn Schriml

The Disease Ontology has been developed as a standardized ontology for human disease, since 2003, with the purpose of providing the biomedical community with manual curated, consistent, reusable and sustainable descriptions of human disease terms, phenotype characteristics and related...

Introduction to the Trinity Cancer Transcriptome Analysis Toolkit

05 Feb 2015 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Brian Haas, Aviv Regev, Bill Barnett

This short video provides an overview of our ITCR-funded effort to leverage RNA-Seq and de novo transcriptome assembly to assist researchers in studying cancer transcriptomes.  Visit our NCGAS Trinity/Galaxy portal to access these compute...

Jaqpot - An open-source web platform for creating, using, testing and sharing predictive models in nano-informatics

20 Jun 2019 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Haralambos Sarimveis

Nano WG June 20, 2019Computational models that predict physicochemical properties, biokinetics or adverse biological effects of Engineered Nanomaterials (ENMs) are becoming increasingly important to support risk assessment and safety-by-design. This is primarily due to cost-saving and...

Multiclass cancer diagnosis using tumor gene expression signatures

10 Nov 2014 | Downloads

Experiment Description:    The optimal treatment of patients with cancer depends on establishing accurate diagnoses by using a complex combination of clinical and histopathological data. In some instances, this task is difficult or impossible because of atypical clinical...

NANOANALYTICS OF EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES – Standards for isolation, characterization and reporting

26 May 2017 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Shivani Sharma

Nano WG presentation on May 25, 2017. Presentation by Dr.  Shivani Sharma, Associate Director of the Nano Pico Characterization Lab, UCLA. Nanoscale characterization of exosomes and their use disease biomarkers and drug delivery agents

NanoInformatics Knowledge Commons Curation Team: Building the Data Dictionary to Enrich Data Curation

11 Jul 2018 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Jaleesia Amos, Yuan Tian, Mervi Heiskanen

Nano WG Presentation, May 31st, 2018 Organized storing of data using informed-decision making to determine what information should be curated, when data curation is complete, and how to identify high-quality data. Purpose of NIKC structure & curation process: tell the story of...

NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer, and caNanoLab: A Data Repository for Cancer Nanomedicines

27 Nov 2018 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Luisa Russell, Mervi Heiskanen

Nano WG presentation November15, 2018 NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer –Structure–Achievements–Scientific FocuscaNanoLab–Intro to Platform–Data Curation–User Statistics–Future Directions

Patient Stories

30 Nov 2015 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Diane Townsel

Beaumont’s Patient videos: is the story of five patients that have participated in clinical research or have been a part of a bio-specimen study. The videos tell the unique stories of our patients and how our Cancer Clinical Trials staff build relationships with our patients and guide them...

Por Nuestras Hijas/For Our Daughters HPV Program

24 Nov 2015 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Maria E. Fernandez

The Por Nuestras Hijas/For Our Daughters HPV program is an interactive, culturally appropriate HPV education program which includes a print fotonovela and a tailored interactive multimedia intervention (TIMI). The TIMI runs on iPads and also available on the web and mobile platforms. The program...

pRainBow optical barcoding library

14 Aug 2014 | Reagents | Contributor(s): Andries Zijlstra

Note: this is a work in progress. About: pRainBow is a library of lentiviral vectors designed to allow for fluorescent labeling of cells with one of 7 distinct fluorescent proteins. Composition: How to obtain: How to cite: Other information:Good global...

Rationale for Creating an International Forum and NCI Funding Opportunities

18 Apr 2014 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Larry Clarke

The topic here is the creation of research networks and their value to cancer research.The Cancer Imaging Program, is administering several research networks. This presentation on the creation and value of two of them (The Network for Translational research or NTR, and the Quantitative Imaging...

Report to the DICOM Standards Committee - December 4, 2015

10 Dec 2014 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Joseph Kalen

Summary of the 2015 Epigenetic Engineering for Cancer Workshops

22 Dec 2015 | Publications | Contributor(s): Tony Dickherber

This document provides a general summary of the 2 virtual workshops held in Fall of 2015 to explore the suitability of epigenetic engineering tools to specifically modify epigenetic loci to study and/or treat cancer.

Text Messaging and Phone Calls as Tools to Promote Healthy Behaviors among Hispanic Populations

24 Nov 2015 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Laura Leticia Nervi, Barbara Damron, Maria Otero, Andrew Sussman, Dolores Guest

Title: Text Messaging and Phone Calls as Tools to Promote Healthy Behaviors among Hispanic Populations   Objectives: The primary aim of this project was to evaluate the use of text messaging and phone calls to motivate Hispanic adult males and females to increase their daily physical...

Text Messaging as a Method to Increase Oral Chemotherapy Adherence in Hispanic Cancer Populations

23 Nov 2015 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Laura Leticia Nervi, Barbara Damron, Andrew Sussman, Dolores Guest

Title: Text Messaging as a Method to Increase Oral Chemotherapy Adherence in Hispanic Cancer Populations:  Patient and Provider Feasibility Surveys Objectives: The purpose of this study was to explore the feasibility of conducting an interventional study to evaluate the effectiveness of text...