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Biomedical Datasets for Large Scale Analysis

Biomedical data is growing at astonishing rates with the broadening of access to next-generation sequencing (NGS) and single-cell solutions. Not only is more data being generated, but it is also being generated with improvements in base-calling accuracy, read length and the generation of reads from each end of the library …

Written by Manisha Ray

Big data for big results in childhood cancer

Last week Seven Bridges CEO Brandi Davis-Dusenbery joined an expert panel to discuss how data contributes to the fight against childhood cancer. Hosted by The Atlantic, the Children and Cancer forum sought to address the practical realities of pediatric cancer and identify ways to improve outcomes for these patients. You …

Written by Nick

Cavatica wins Bio-IT People’s Choice Award

Cavatica is the data sharing platform for pediatric disease Seven Bridges and our partners at The Children’s Brain Tumor Tissue Consortium (CBTTC) and the Pacific Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Consortium (PNOC) were honored with a Bio-IT World People’s Choice award for Cavatica, the collaborative analysis and data sharing platform for pediatric diseases. This award follows Seven Bridges’ previous Best […]

Written by Patrick

Simons Genome Diversity Project now available on the Platform and CGC

We’ve just announced the availability of the Simons Genome Diversity Project (SGDP) dataset on our Platform and Cancer Genomics Cloud. In keeping with Seven Bridges’ mission to colocalize data and analysis tools on the cloud, anyone with an internet connection can now explore SGDP’s 35TB of data. One way to …

Written by Patrick

Implementing precision medicine needs smart connected data

Ahead of the Festival of Genomics, London, we take a look at what needs to happen in order to make biomedical data truly useful for precision medicine. Have you ever tried to show a friend an article or video that you know they would enjoy, but can’t quite find it? …

Written by Patrick

The race for a revolutionary new cancer diagnosis tool: The Blood Profiling Atlas in Cancer

A revolutionary approach to cancer diagnosis Liquid biopsy, a new technique for tracking down fragments of tumor DNA in the blood, has the potential to revolutionize how cancer is diagnosed and treated. At next week’s Precision Medicine World Congress, Seven Bridges’ Bruce Press will lead the “Update on the Cancer …

Written by Patrick

Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia — Five Key Discoveries

Powered by a wave of next generation sequence data from labs and the clinic, oncology is in the midst of a paradigm shift towards personalized medicine. To the modern cancer biologist, the genomic and transcriptomic features of a patient’s tumor have the potential to function as key guideposts for selecting …

Written by Patrick

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