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 Cancer Genomics Cloud April 19th, 2016 Cancer Genomics Cloud presented at AACR On Sunday, Dr Brandi Davis-Dusenbery presented the Seven Bridges Cancer Genomics Cloud (CGC) to a packed room at the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) annual meeting in New Orleans. We are thrilled to see so much enthusiasm about the cloud pilots, and that so many people were keen to … Written by Nick Cancer Genomics Cloud April 13th, 2016 Hacking cancer in the cloud Earlier this month, budding hackers from across the US gathered at the Seven Bridges offices in Cambridge, MA. They came to spend the weekend building and applying tools for cancer research using the Cancer Genomics Cloud (CGC). The CGC brings together data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and other … Written by Nick Cancer Genomics Cloud April 7th, 2016 Cancer Genomics Cloud wins Bio-IT World Best of Show The Seven Bridges Cancer Genomics Cloud (CGC) has won the Best of Show award for Informatics Tools and Data Analytics at the Bio-IT World Conference and Expo, held at Seaport World Trade Center in Boston, MA . This award is judged by a panel of experts from academia and industry; this … Written by Nick Platform April 3rd, 2016 The new normal: portable workflows Since 2014, researchers around the world, including engineers and scientists at Seven Bridges, have been developing the Common Workflow Language (CWL) specification. The ambitious goal of this project is to enable portable, reproducible and scalable biomedical data analysis. In other words – enabling the same workflow (including the precise tool … Written by Kate Hodesdon Posts navigation 1 … 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 … 13
