Publications by authors named "John Otridge"

Unlabelled: Proteomics has emerged as a powerful tool for studying cancer biology, developing diagnostics, and therapies. With the continuous improvement and widespread availability of high-throughput proteomic technologies, the generation of large-scale proteomic data has become more common in cancer research, and there is a growing need for resources that support the sharing and integration of multi-omics datasets. Such datasets require extensive metadata including clinical, biospecimen, and experimental and workflow annotations that are crucial for data interpretation and reanalysis.

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  • Scientific advancements in cancer research increasingly depend on combining datasets to gain insights for better treatments and diagnostics.
  • The Cancer Research Data Commons (CRDC) was developed by the NCI to provide researchers with cloud-based access to a vast collection of cancer data, allowing analysis without the need to store large datasets.
  • Over the last decade, the CRDC has made strides in data accessibility and has supported the cancer research community through training and outreach, with ongoing plans to improve data sharing and usability in the future.
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  • The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has developed various data commons since 2014 to support cancer research, focusing on sharing genomic, proteomic, imaging, and clinical data from NCI-funded studies.
  • This review provides an overview of the different data commons, highlighting their specific features, achievements, and associated challenges.
  • It also addresses how these commons adhere to FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) and align with the NIH's new Data Management and Sharing Policy.
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  • The NCI Cancer Research Data Commons (CRDC) is a centralized platform designed to enhance the accessibility and discoverability of cancer research data for scientists.
  • The main challenges addressed by CRDC include the diversity of data models and ontologies, as well as the fragmented storage of data across various locations.
  • CRDC offers services that aggregate data from different studies into one interface, making it easier for researchers to find and utilize cancer data collectively.
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  • The NCI's Cloud Resources (CR) are part of the Cancer Research Data Commons (CRDC) and provide analytical tools for cancer research.
  • The three main CRs—Broad Institute FireCloud, Institute for Systems Biology Cancer Gateway, and Seven Bridges Cancer Genomics Cloud—offer access to large cancer datasets and tools for data analysis directly in the cloud.
  • Users can also upload their own data to these platforms, enabling customized analysis workflows and the ability to combine their data with CRDC-hosted resources.
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Summary: IntegratedMRF is an open-source R implementation for integrating drug response predictions from various genomic characterizations using univariate or multivariate random forests that includes various options for error estimation techniques. The integrated framework was developed following superior performance of random forest based methods in NCI-DREAM drug sensitivity prediction challenge. The computational framework can be applied to estimate mean and confidence interval of drug response prediction errors based on ensemble approaches with various combinations of genetic and epigenetic characterizations as inputs.

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African individuals harbor molecular RH variants, which permit alloantibody formation to high-prevalence Rh antigens after transfusions. Genotyping identifies such RH variants, which are often missed by serologic blood group typing. Comprehensive molecular blood group analysis using 3 genotyping platforms, nucleotide sequencing, and serologic evaluation was performed on a 7-year-old African male with sickle cell disease who developed an "e-like" antibody shortly after initiating monthly red blood cell (RBC) transfusions for silent stroke.

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