A portal for sharing, analysing and visualising paediatric cancer survivorship data is enabling doctors to improve understanding of the challenges faced by these patients.
The aim of the St. Jude Survivorship Portal, created by scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, is to enable researchers to make new discoveries with just “one click”, the team say.
It is a big-data platform that incorporates clinical and genomic information, integrating three dimensions of data: whole genomic sequencing, treatment exposure and outcomes.
Writing in Cancer Discovery, the team reveals that the free-to-use portal houses 1,600 phenotypic variables and 400 million genetic variants from more than 7,700 childhood cancer s...
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