Cancer Genomics Cloud August 25th, 2016 Launching the next DREAM Challenge on the Seven Bridges Cancer Genomics Cloud The explosion in biomedical data requires ongoing development of analysis methods and community standards. A proven way of driving innovation is through Challenges—competitions to develop crowdsourced methods to answer specific scientific questions. These challenges offer unique opportunities for academic and commercial communities to advance science by developing precise algorithms and … Written by Nick Platform July 31st, 2016 What happens when I run a task? Each time you run a tool or a workflow on the Seven Bridges Platform, you create a task. The task goes through several different phases before it is finally completed. A change in its status, displayed in the upper left corner of the task page, marks off each phase, as … Written by Aleksandar Gazibara Platform July 31st, 2016 Customizing your tasks on the Seven Bridges Platform This blog post provides an overview of how hints can be used to customize tasks on the Seven Bridges Platform. In the context of the Platform, “hints” are parameters that allow you to configure or override some of the predefined ways in which apps and tasks work. Specifically, hints can be … Written by Marko Marinkovic Conferences June 29th, 2016 Festival of Genomics Boston: Tumor heterogeneity and single cell tracks Among other very interesting tracks on genomics, Festival of Genomics Boston this year included a track dedicated to Tumor Heterogeneity, which is one of the most intriguing aspects of tumor biology. In a separate track, Single Cell Genomics and the technologies and approaches for investigating it were discussed. I followed … Written by Andrew Gruen Cancer Genomics Cloud June 21st, 2016 The Data Browser has a new look! Representing more than 11,000 patients, each analyzed across multiple molecular dimensions, The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) represents an incredibly rich data resource. However, navigating this landscape to find exactly the data that is most interesting can be challenging – particularly when information is spread across multiple sources. To address this … Written by Kate Hodesdon Cancer Genomics Cloud June 13th, 2016 High school cancer genomics It requires a lot of collaboration. Cancer will not be solved by one lone scientist in his lab, it will be solved by a group effort of many scientists and a platform for collaboration is necessary —Jamie Gray Last week Seven Bridges Program Manager Jack DiGiovanna went back to school, to … Written by Nick Visitors May 17th, 2016 Kevin Litchfield: using whole exome sequencing in testicular cancer Each week our London office holds Seven Bridges Fridays, where we invite speakers from academia and industry to discuss their work over beer and snacks. Our recent presenter was a mathematician turned bioinformatician who worked in the pharmaceutical industry for 8 years. Kevin Litchfield is now finishing his PhD in Molecular Biology … Written by Nick Cancer Genomics Cloud May 11th, 2016 Usable, Collaborative, Reproducible, and Extensible The Seven Bridges Cancer Genomics Cloud (CGC) is one of three pilot systems funded by the National Cancer Institute with the aim of co-localizing massive genomics datasets, like The Cancer Genomics Atlas (TCGA), alongside secure and scalable computational resources for analysis. TCGA comprises multidimensional matched tumor-normal data from over 11,000 … Written by Nick Conferences April 20th, 2016 Seven Bridges at AACR This week the Seven Bridges team has been participating at the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) annual meeting, held this year in New Orleans. We’ve been demonstrating the collaborative research benefits of our Cancer Genomics Cloud, and catching up on the latest developments in cancer genomics at AACR. Speaking … Written by Nick Posts navigation 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … 11
