Getting Started at the Standards Portal Pilot

27 Mar 2014 | Contributor(s): Denise Warzel, Ann Christine Catlin

The Standards Portal Pilot is now available! (Click the link for the portal home page.)Why use the standards portal? See more information about its genesis and use cases in a study conducted for the VCDE caBIG community here. If you are participating in the Pilot, please join the...

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

NCI Standard CRFs

15 Mar 2014 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Denise Warzel, Ann Christine Catlin, Sumudinie fernando

Working in conjunction with NCI has developed a collection of Standard Case Report Forms (CRFs) for use in developing new protocols. The project and its status are described here. The reuse of sections from standard CRFs helps to ensure that data collected in different studies is compatible and...

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...

Performance Status Scoring : a standards portal resource

15 Mar 2014 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Ann Christine Catlin, Sumudinie fernando, Denise Warzel, Angela Kummerow

The scoring scale used may depend on patient population, disease, study goals and other criteria. Many definitions of the scale scoring do not match the standard.What is Performance Status?Performance status attempts to quantify the general well-being of cancer and other patients. The score...

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...

Standards Portal CDEs Complete View

15 Mar 2014 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Denise Warzel, Ann Christine Catlin, Sumudinie fernando

This DataView on this resource page is used to explore the Standards Portal CDEsUse the DataView provided on this resource page to navigate, browse, search, explore and download the complete set of columns for NCI common data elements standards at the Hub. These CDEs are brought to the Hub for...

Standards Portal CRFs Common Data Fields

19 Mar 2014 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Denise Warzel, Sumudinie fernando, Ann Christine Catlin

This DataView is for the Common Data Fields of the Standards Portal CRFsUse this DataView to browse, search, explore and download the essential set of columns for NCI case report form standards at the Hub. These CRFs were brought to the Hub for clarification, discussion and discovery. They were...

Standards Portal CRFs Complete View

19 Mar 2014 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Denise Warzel, Sumudinie fernando, Ann Christine Catlin

This DataView resource page is for the Standards Portal CRFsUse this DataView to browse,search, explore and download the complete set of columns for NCI case report form standards at the Hub. These CRFs were brought to the Hub for clarification, discussion and discovery. They were assembled by...

Standards Portal Vocabulary DataView

15 Mar 2014 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Sherri de Coronado, Denise Warzel, Ann Christine Catlin, Sumudinie fernando

The DataView for terminology referenced/used by the CDEs and CRFs currently contained in the Standards PortalThe DataView on this resource page can be used to browse, search, explore and download the NCI concepts for vocabulary referenced by the CDEs and CRFs uploaded to the Standards Portal....

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.